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AO1: Paradise Lost BK 9 Flashcards

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(CORRUPTION)
How does Satan describe his corruption?
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“All good to me becomes // bane”

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(GENDER)
How does the narrator describe Eve?
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“Virgin majestie”

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(DECEPTION)
How do Eve and Adam suffer from Satans manipulation?
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“Fall into deception unaware”

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(GENDER)
How does the narrator describe Eve as angelic?
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“Her Heav’nly forme/ angelic, but more soft and feminine”

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(MANIPULATION)
How is Satan’s consistent corruption described?
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“The hot hell that always in him burnes”

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(DECEIT)
How does Milton mock Satans ambition to corrupt Adam and Eve?

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[Satan is] “Blazing with delusive light”

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(CONSEQUENCE)
How does Eve admit she is wrong?
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“But of this tree we may not taste nor touch; God so commanded”

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(CONSEQUENCES)
How does Eve describe reason?
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“We live law to ourselves, our reason is our law”

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9
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(MANIPULATION)
How does Satan manipulate Eve through flattery?
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[she is] “queen of this universe”

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(MANIPULATION)
How does Satan try and manipulate Eve into deceiving God through reassurance?
771

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“Author unsuspect”

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(MANIPULATION)
How does Satan try to manipulate Eve into eating the fruit as a cure?
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‘Cure of all, this Fruit Divine, fair to the Eye, inviting to the taste”

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(SIN + SUFFERING)
How does MIlton describe the consequence of Eve eating the fruit?”
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“She pluck, she ate: earth felt the wound (…) all was lost”

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(PLEASURE)
How does Milton describe Eve eating?
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“Greedily she ingorg’d without restraint”

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(DECEIT)
How does Eve believe she can get away with eating the fruit due to heaven being far away?
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“Heav’n is high, // High and remote”

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(GENDER)
How does eve recognise her subordination because she is female?
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“For inferior who is free?”

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(LOVE)
How does Eve describe her love towards Adam?
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“So dear I love him that all deaths // I could endure”

17
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(GENDER + MANIPULATION)
How does Eve persuade Adam to eat the fruit so they will be equal?
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“May Joyner us, equal joy, as equal love”

18
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(GENDER)
How does Adam use biblical subordination to describe Eves hierarchal positioning?
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“Flesh of flesh // Bone of my Bone thou art”

19
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(GENDER)
What is Adam’s reaction to Eve eating the fruit?

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‘Defloured, and now to Death devote?”

20
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(CONSEQUENCE + LOVE)
How does Milton describe A + E sex after they’ve eaten the fruit?

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“In Lust they burne”

21
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(MANIPULATION)
How has Eve’s manipulation to eat the fruit gotten the better of Adam?
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“Not deceived, but fondly o’ercome by female charm”

22
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(CONSEQUENCE)
How is Earths suffering described after A+ E have committed the ultimate sin?

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“Som sad drops wept”

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(SUFFERING)
How does Milton describe A+E the consequences after the fall has been committed?

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“Their minds / How darkened; innocence, that as a veil / Had shadowed them from knowing ill, was gone”

24
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(SUFFERING)
How is A + E lost innocence to vulnerabilty described?

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“Sham’s naked miserable”

25
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(LOVE + SUFFERING)
How is the breakdown of Adam and Eve’s love described?

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“Fruitless hour”

26
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(SUFFERING)
End of PL Bk 12

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“The world was all before them, where to choose. Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand with wand’ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way”

27
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“Wreath’ - Symbolic of death.

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‘The garland wreathed for Eve dropped down’ (893)

28
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What is Miltons interjection in book 9?

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“I must now change these notes to tragic”1-90

29
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How does Milton describe the task of Paradise lost/

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“Sad task yet argument not less heroic but more heroic”

30
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How is satans desire for destruction described/

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“In meditated fraud and malice, bent on mans destruction, maugre of what hap heavier on himself’

31
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(APPEARANCE VS REALITY) How does Satan describe his fallen state?

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“Fittest imp of fraud in whom to enter, and his dark suggestion hide from sharpest sight”

32
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(CORRUPTION) How does satan describe his internal torment?

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“The more I see pleasures about me, ao more I feel torment within me. Only in destroying I find ease to my relentless thoughts AO5: Dr Faustus

33
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(CORRUPTION) How does satan attempt to justify his transformation into a snake?

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“O foul descent! That I who erst contended with gods to sit the highest am now constrained into a beast, and mixt with bestial slime. But what will not ambition and revenge descend to?

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