SATAN II

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Summary

After his defeat in Heaven, Satan realizes that there exists only one power greater than the power of God: the power of love between two mortal human beings. The fearless Rebel decides to become a mortal human being so that he can experience true love. But a jealous God follows Satan to Earth.

Their second contest takes place in a "Third World" revolution, then in a Western mental hospital. God's daughter — Satan's lover — plays a decisive role in the final outcome.

Excerpt (from Satan’s soliloquy at end of Act I)

Goodbye, Heaven.
Heaven's a dream
Of puppets jerked
Across God's stage.
But the theater is now ablaze,
The panicked angels flee,
God drops the strings . . .

The curtain of eternal night
Flashes up in flame,
Then flutters down in ashes.
The gilded balconies collapse,
The starry ceiling crashes.
As God's flood drowned our Earth,
My fire engulfs His Heaven.

One spark of human love
Is all it takes;
The rest is smoke.
But the play is not yet over.
The final light,
Flickering amidst the charred rubble,
Is puppets on fire,
Free, at last,
To dance.