This character finds it "better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven".
In one scene, this character tells his daughter and son that "I know thee not, nor ever saw till now / Sight more detestable than him and thee." In his first scene, he complains that his second-in-command is no longer as beautiful as before, and claims that "the mind is its own place." At one point, his shield is compared to the moon as seen by Galileo, and he himself is compared to a sunspot. He seeks out his victim by pretending that he wants to "with secret gaze / or open admiration him behold," and is later caught squatting at a (*) woman's ear like a toad. At the end of one of this character's speeches, all of his companions and then he himself are turned into snakes. He flees a battle after seeing golden scales in the sky, and is defied by Abdiel and wounded by Michael. This character finds it "better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven". For 10 points, name this fallen angel who tempts Adam and Eve in Milton's Paradise Lost.
In one scene, this character tells his daughter and son that "I know thee not, nor ever saw till now / Sight more detestable than him and thee."
Satan [or Lucifer]