AO1: Paradise Lost BK 9 Flashcards
(CORRUPTION)
How does Satan describe his corruption?
122
“All good to me becomes // bane”
(GENDER)
How does the narrator describe Eve?
270
“Virgin majestie”
(DECEPTION)
How do Eve and Adam suffer from Satans manipulation?
362
“Fall into deception unaware”
(GENDER)
How does the narrator describe Eve as angelic?
457
“Her Heav’nly forme/ angelic, but more soft and feminine”
(MANIPULATION)
How is Satan’s consistent corruption described?
467
“The hot hell that always in him burnes”
(DECEIT)
How does Milton mock Satans ambition to corrupt Adam and Eve?
[Satan is] “Blazing with delusive light”
(CONSEQUENCE)
How does Eve admit she is wrong?
652
“But of this tree we may not taste nor touch; God so commanded”
(CONSEQUENCES)
How does Eve describe reason?
684
“We live law to ourselves, our reason is our law”
(MANIPULATION)
How does Satan manipulate Eve through flattery?
684
[she is] “queen of this universe”
(MANIPULATION)
How does Satan try and manipulate Eve into deceiving God through reassurance?
771
“Author unsuspect”
(MANIPULATION)
How does Satan try to manipulate Eve into eating the fruit as a cure?
776
‘Cure of all, this Fruit Divine, fair to the Eye, inviting to the taste”
(SIN + SUFFERING)
How does MIlton describe the consequence of Eve eating the fruit?”
784
“She pluck, she ate: earth felt the wound (…) all was lost”
(PLEASURE)
How does Milton describe Eve eating?
791
“Greedily she ingorg’d without restraint”
(DECEIT)
How does Eve believe she can get away with eating the fruit due to heaven being far away?
811
“Heav’n is high, // High and remote”
(GENDER)
How does eve recognise her subordination because she is female?
825
“For inferior who is free?”
(LOVE)
How does Eve describe her love towards Adam?
832
“So dear I love him that all deaths // I could endure”
(GENDER + MANIPULATION)
How does Eve persuade Adam to eat the fruit so they will be equal?
882
“May Joyner us, equal joy, as equal love”
(GENDER)
How does Adam use biblical subordination to describe Eves hierarchal positioning?
914
“Flesh of flesh // Bone of my Bone thou art”
(GENDER)
What is Adam’s reaction to Eve eating the fruit?
‘Defloured, and now to Death devote?”
(CONSEQUENCE + LOVE)
How does Milton describe A + E sex after they’ve eaten the fruit?
“In Lust they burne”
(MANIPULATION)
How has Eve’s manipulation to eat the fruit gotten the better of Adam?
998
“Not deceived, but fondly o’ercome by female charm”
(CONSEQUENCE)
How is Earths suffering described after A+ E have committed the ultimate sin?
“Som sad drops wept”
(SUFFERING)
How does Milton describe A+E the consequences after the fall has been committed?
1053-55
“Their minds / How darkened; innocence, that as a veil / Had shadowed them from knowing ill, was gone”
(SUFFERING)
How is A + E lost innocence to vulnerabilty described?
“Sham’s naked miserable”
