> Satan is different than Iago, as Iago is human after all... While technically correct, I would invite you to consider this exchange from the ending of Othell

> Satan is different than Iago, as Iago is human after all... While technically correct, I would invite you to consider this exchange from the ending of Othello. OTHELLO I look down towards his feet; but that's a fable. If that thou best a devil, I cannot kill thee. (Wounds IAGO) [...] IAGO I bleed, sir; but not kill'd. Seemed to me like Iago was pretty clearly saying that he is the devil. Now that might be a little egotistical on his behalf, but the greater point, that an inherent evil lurks in man that can rival any devil, is understood. Or, in tying back to what I imagine was Milton's message as well, that Satan (and, by extension, Evil) is not necessarily going to be the cartoonish, trident-wielding, goat-footed demon we expect.