backstory of Satan's rebellion l27-83 B1

Question 1

introduction to Satan and the fall

Answer 1

Th’ infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile
Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv’d
The Mother of Mankind,

Question 2

Satan’s aim during the revolt

Answer 2

He trusted to have equal’d the most High, - however impossible to equal a superlative therefore introducing his delusion

Question 3

Nature of the war in Heaven

Answer 3

Against the Throne and Monarchy of God
Rais’d impious War in Heav’n and battle proud
With vain attempt. - tinged with an allusion to the Civil War

Question 4

God’s response

Answer 4

Hurld headlong flaming from th' Ethereal Skie
With hideous ruine and combustion down
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire,
Who durst defie th' Omnipotent to Arms.

Question 5

mental torture

Answer 5

for now the thought
Both of lost happiness and lasting pain
Torments him;

Question 6

Satan looking at the setting of Hell

Answer 6

round he throws his baleful eyes
That witness’d huge affliction and dismay
Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate:

Question 7

Description of Hell

Answer 7

waste and wilde,
A Dungeon horrible, on all sides round
As one great Furnace flam’d, yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible

torture without end
Still urges, and a fiery Deluge, fed
With ever-burning Sulphur unconsum’d:
‘prison’