appetite

Question 1

But neither here seek I

Answer 1

PL But neither here seek I, no nor in heaven/ dwell, unless by mastering Heaven’s Supreme

POWER Satan will not stay on earth unless he defeats god. His thirst for power overrides his enjoyment of the beauty of paradise

Question 2

I glory more

Answer 2

I glory more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession

POWER V prefers the power felt over cheating his ‘heirs’. Appetite for power overrides appetite for materialistic goods

Question 3

by sly assault;

Answer 3

A: “by sly assault; and somewhere nigh at hand / watches, no doubt, with greedy hope to find / his wish and best advantage”

POWER

Question 4

with hope that when I die

Answer 4

With hope that when I die (which they expect each greedy minute)

POWER

Question 5

and render me more equal

Answer 5

E: “and render me more equal, and perhaps / a thing not undesirable, sometime / Superior; for inferior who is free?”

POWER Eve contemplates not telling adam due to her appetite for power. Rhetoric question

Question 6

“courteous sir

Answer 6

M: “Courteous sir, scorn not at my poverty”; “you are unequal to me”

POWER Mosca assumes a powerless role to achieve power

Question 7

more heroic

Answer 7

“more heroic than the wrath / of stern Achilles”

POWER Milton appetite for power as powet through writing this secondary epic.

Question 8

Some power had struck

Answer 8

V: “Some power had struck me with a dead palsy”

POWER Ironic that Volpone should now feel this

Question 9

The season

Answer 9

“the season prime of sweetest scents and airs”

SEXUAL sibilance sounds (echo devil). something potentially dangerous about these senses as they appeal to appetite

Question 10

let me kiss

Answer 10

let me kiss, with adoration, thee

SEXUAL setting moral tone of the play. Volpone sexual appetite for gold. erotic language is shocking

Question 11

watches, no doubt,

Eve separate

Answer 11

“watches, no doubt, with greedy hope to find his wish and best advantage”
“Eve separate he spies”

SEXUAL predatory language. greedy for her.

Question 12

“a beauty ripe

Answer 12

“a beauty ripe as harvest!… a soft lip would tempt you to an eternity of kissing! And flesh that melteth in the touch of blood! bright as your gold!”

SEXUAL appeals to sexual senses and to Volpone’s appetite for gold. erotic language. “ripe” suggests virginity.

Question 13

he slept;

Answer 13

“he slept; in at his mouth”

SEXUAL grotesque trochaic line. spondee “his mouth” enhances rapist connotations.. possibly foreshadowing his sexual appetite for Eve.

Question 14

“my liver

Answer 14

“my liver melts”

livers are the bodily source of lust; shows volpone is about carnival desires

Question 15

“wanton

Answer 15

“wanton growth”

SEXUAL suggests sexual promiscuity. Eve’s desire to control nature is ironic. Christopher Ricks “anti-pun”. A fallen reader may interpret this as foreshadowing her wanton character? Anti-pun foreshadowing effect

Question 16

“I doubt not

Answer 16

“I doubt not to bring success to your desires” -

SEXUAL Volpone’s greatest crime is lead by lustful desires

Question 17

“veiled

Answer 17

“veiled in a cloud of fragrance”

SEXUAL seductive image. she is appealing to Satans appetite without knowing it.

Question 18

“I can feel a whimsy

Answer 18

” I can feel a whimsy i’my blood. I know not how success hath made me wanton”

SEXUAL sexual language is comical; Mosca’s sexual appetite is drawn from self-adoration

Question 19

“the hand of Eve

Answer 19

“the hand of eve; spot more delicious than the gardens…”

SEXUAL

Question 20

“I cannot be taken

Answer 20

“I cannot be taken by these sensual baits”

Celia as the embodiment of virtue? contrast to Eve.

Question 21

” step fair virgin

Answer 21

“step fair virgin pass, what pleasing seemed”

SEXUAL

Question 22

“and with rapine sweet

Answer 22

“and with rapine sweet bereaved his fierceness of the fierce intent it brought”

SEXUAL traductio. the power of his sexual appetite has almost rid him of his evil intention

Question 23

“ovid’s

Answer 23

Volpone attempts to appeal to Celia more through reference to “ovid’s tales”, giving reference to metamorphosis. “Europa” - refers to myth where Zeus changes into a bull and has sex with a girl. disturbing.

Question 24

“thou yielded

Answer 24

“thou yielded to transgression”

SEXUAL sexual transgression suggested with Satan

Question 25

“yield,

Answer 25

“yield, or ill force thee.

SEXUAL contrast to previous wooing scene. this is the first time Volpone’s villainous acts have actually harmed someone. Power of sexual nature. Destructive.

Question 26

“fondly overcome

Answer 26

“fondly overcome with female charm”

SEXUAL Adams downfall is his sexual appetite and passion overriding his reason. destructive as causes to fall.

Question 27

“in lust

Answer 27

“in lust they burn”

SEXUAL burn is a reference to hell, showing destruction.

Question 28

“the season, prime

Answer 28

the season, prime for sweetest scents and airs”

SENSES engages the readers senses

Question 29

“the smell of gain

Answer 29

the smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound

SENSES asyndetic listing. appeals to senses. lures you in.

Question 30

“letting a cherry

Answer 30

letting a cherry knock against their lips, and draw it by their mouths and back again

SENSES imagery. metaphor tempts taste senses

Question 31

a goodly tree…

Answer 31

a goodly tree… loaded with fruit of fairest colours mixt”

SENSES alliteration of fricative sounds makes it pleasing. appetite for beauty (we know eve has appetite for beauty from book 4)

Question 32

“all her looks are

Answer 32

all her looks are as sweet as the first grapes or cherries

SENSES prelapsarian image (eve). Simile makes her appealing

Question 33

“more pleased my senses

Answer 33

more pleased my senses than the smell of sweetest fennel, or the teats of ewe or goat dropping milk”

SENSES the tree appealed to satan’s appetite. appealing to sense of taste, yet this epic simile has a note of grotesque.

Question 34

to please the

Answer 34

to please the belly and the groin

Mosca seems to show the main ambition of all the villainous characters in the play. Appetite seems to be the most alluring and destructive force.

Question 35

the scent of that alluring

Answer 35

the scent of that alluring fruit, urged me so keen

SENSES personifying the fruit into a temptress. the appealing smell is destructive.

Question 36

The heads of…

Answer 36

“the heads of parrots, tongues of nightingales, the brains of peacocks…”

SENSES asyndetic listing to appeal to senses. both satan and volpone are persuasive at times and alluring, but certain details make it grotesque and alert the moral dubeous of pursuing appetite. technique used by milton and jonson

Question 37

see, here, a rope

Answer 37

see, here, a rope of pearl; and each more orient than that the brave Egyptian queen caroused: dissolve and drink ‘em”

SENSES Volpone blends the senses in this synaesthesic phrase

Question 38

fix’d on the fruit she gaz’d

Answer 38

fix’d on the fruit she gazed, which behold might tempt alone”

SENSES her natural appetite is suggested by the narrator as being more destructive then the persuasion of Satan.

Question 39

“wak’d an eager

Answer 39

wak’d an eager appetite, raised by the smell so savory of that fruit”

SENSES she already had this appetite (given by god) so satan is just directing it.

Question 40

“greedily she engorged

Answer 40

greedily she engorged without restraint, and knew not eating death”

SENSES ugly guttural sounds. the metaphor of “death” shows the destructive nature of her appetite: death can now “engorge” itself on her.

Question 41

see how they do look

Answer 41

see how they do look; with what degrees their blood doth leave their faces! o, ‘twill afford me a rare meal of laughter.”

synaesthesic metaphor.