This problem for Satan wanting to overthrow God resembles a hero standing up against a tyrannical enemy. What started the idea of Satan rebelling against God was Satan's jealousy of the Son of God. This where I believe Milton tried to instill the evil in Satan by having his passion come from jealousy, but too many people overlooked this and still felt for the fallen angel. The feeling of sympathy arises in readers from seeing Satan suffer after he was banished to hell, and it continues when Satan self reflects after the battle. "O Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams/That bring to my remembrance from what state/I fell, how glorious once above thy Spheare;" (Book IV, ll. 37-39). Here Satan was sulking when he got to Earth about how he may miss heaven. He might have felt regret for attempting to overthrow God. This catches the emotional side of readers, feeling the loneliness and guilt that Satan portrayed. So when Satan decided to exact revenge on God, it is not hard to want to pull for Satan to be successful. What I assert is that Milton crossed himself up when writing about this. What readers forget is not what Satan feels, but why. This is what makes Satan evil and should draw readers away from feeling sympathetic. His desire to overthrow God came from jealousy, and once he lost that jealousy became more intense and might have turned into hatred. For a hero trying to overthrow a tyrant, his passion does not come from jealousy and hatred. This is the difference that Milton did not emphasize enough for readers to understand the true evil in Satan. Milton tricks readers into believing Satan was fueled by moral right like a hero, and in the confusion readers also felt sympathy. This may be Milton trying to subliminally teach readers a lesson to not listen to Satan because he will trick you. .
Satan does not come up with his idea to get revenge on God by himself, he has the help of the angels that fought for him.
