Based on this excerpt from john milton's paradise lost, what was satan's likely motive for wanting to punish adam and eve? sight hateful, sight tormenting! thus these two imparadis't in one anothers arms the happier eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss, while i to hell am thrust, where neither joy nor love, but fierce desire, among our other torments not the least, still unfulfill'd with pain of longing pines; yet let me not forget what i have gain'dhe envied the love they shared, which he would never experience. he resented them because god was lenient toward adam and eve but banished satan. he was angry with god and wanted to seek revenge by ruining god’s creations. he was furious that god did not love him as he loved the humans adam and eve. he felt disrespected because god seemed to value humans more than an angel like hi