While studying today I realized a good way to link a piece of Paradise Lost and Hamlet. You can relate the appearance versus reality theme that is very heavy in Hamlet and connect it to how when reading Paradise Lost your perspective of Satan is as a hero. We almost wanted Satan to "win." This is created by a false sense of accomplishment when Satan rises from the fiery lake. He appears to be a hero, but in reality he is the king of evil.
John Leskow
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Also in Hamlet , Hamlet says "Nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so" and Satan in paradise lost talks about how the mind can make a hell of heaven or a heaven of hell.
-Paul D
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