appetite Flashcards
But neither here seek I
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
I glory more
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
by sly assault;
A: “by sly assault; and somewhere nigh at hand / watches, no doubt, with greedy hope to find / his wish and best advantage”
POWER
with hope that when I die
With hope that when I die (which they expect each greedy minute)
POWER
and render me more equal
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
“courteous sir
M: “Courteous sir, scorn not at my poverty”; “you are unequal to me”
POWER Mosca assumes a powerless role to achieve power
more heroic
“more heroic than the wrath / of stern Achilles”
POWER Milton appetite for power as powet through writing this secondary epic.
Some power had struck
V: “Some power had struck me with a dead palsy”
POWER Ironic that Volpone should now feel this
The season
“the season prime of sweetest scents and airs”
SEXUAL sibilance sounds (echo devil). something potentially dangerous about these senses as they appeal to appetite
let me kiss
let me kiss, with adoration, thee
SEXUAL setting moral tone of the play. Volpone sexual appetite for gold. erotic language is shocking
watches, no doubt,
Eve separate
“watches, no doubt, with greedy hope to find his wish and best advantage”
“Eve separate he spies”
SEXUAL predatory language. greedy for her.
“a beauty ripe
“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.
he slept;
“he slept; in at his mouth”
SEXUAL grotesque trochaic line. spondee “his mouth” enhances rapist connotations.. possibly foreshadowing his sexual appetite for Eve.
“my liver
“my liver melts”
livers are the bodily source of lust; shows volpone is about carnival desires
“wanton
“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
“I doubt not
“I doubt not to bring success to your desires” -
SEXUAL Volpone’s greatest crime is lead by lustful desires
“veiled
“veiled in a cloud of fragrance”
SEXUAL seductive image. she is appealing to Satans appetite without knowing it.
“I can feel a whimsy
” 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
“the hand of Eve
“the hand of eve; spot more delicious than the gardens…”
SEXUAL
“I cannot be taken
“I cannot be taken by these sensual baits”
Celia as the embodiment of virtue? contrast to Eve.
” step fair virgin
“step fair virgin pass, what pleasing seemed”
SEXUAL
“and with rapine sweet
“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
“ovid’s
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.
“thou yielded
“thou yielded to transgression”
SEXUAL sexual transgression suggested with Satan
