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Book 1 Flashcards

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Milton’s literary aim

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“while it pursues / Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme”

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Milton’s religious aim

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“I may assert Eternal Providence, / And justify the ways of God of men”

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A04 - Milton’s blindness

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“what in me is dark / Illumine”

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Epic question

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“Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?”

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1st mention of Satan’s pride

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“He trusted to have equaled the Most High”

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Satan’s fall

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“Hurled headlong flaming from th’ ethereal sky / With hideous ruin and combustion down / To bottomless perdition”

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Paradoxes to describe

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“confounded though immortal”, “darkness visible”, “fiery deluge”

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Satan torutured by the thought of what he has lost

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“for now the thought / both of lost happiness and lasting pain / torments him”

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Hate and pride in Satan’s eyes

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“baleful eyes / that witnessed huge affliction and dismay / mixed with obdurate pride and steadfast hate”

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Satan comments on Beezlebub’s changed appearance

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“If thou beest he; but O how fall’n! how changed”, “clothed with transcendent brightness didst outshine / Myriads though bright”, “now misery hath joined / In equal ruin”

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Satan’s view on servitude

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“the unconquerable will, / and study of revenge, immortal hate:/ and courage never to submit or yield”, “to bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee, and deify his power /… / that were low indeed”

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Satan’s declaration of war

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“To wage by force or guile eternal war / Irreconcilable”

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Beezlebub questioning God’s reign

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“his high supremacy / whether upheld by strength, or chance, or fate”

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Beezlebub asking if God had not killed them just to be tortured in Hell

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“What if he our conqueror… / have left us this our spirit and strength entire… / that we may suffice hid vengeful ire / or do him mightier service as his thralls”

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Satan announcing their purpose to do evil

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“To do aught good will never be our task / but ever to do ill our sole delight”

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Satan schemes on the lake

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“So stretched out huge in length the Arch-Fiend lay / Chained on the burning lake / … / Left him at large to his own dark designs”

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the demons think they’ve survived by their own strength not by God’s grace

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“glorying to have scaped the Stygian flood / As gods, and by their own recovered strength / Not but the sufferance (permission) of supernal power”

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Satan saying they have swapped the light of Heaven for the gloom of Hell

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“this mournful gloom / For that celestial light”

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S naming himself the possessor of Hell

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“Hail horrors, hail / Infernal world and thou profoundest Hell / Receive thy new possessor”

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Hell is a state of mind

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“The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n”

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S on reigning secure

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“Here we may reign secure, and in my choice / to reign is worth ambition though in Hell”

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Servitude vs. Ruling

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“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heav’n”

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B on the power of S’ voice

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“If once they hear that voice,…,they will soon resume / new courage and revive”

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Shield Epic Simile

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“the croad circumference / Hung on his shoulders like the moon / Through optic glass the Tuscan artists views / At evening from the tope of Fesole, / Or in Valdarno”

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Spear Epic Simile

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“His spear, to equal which the tallest pine / Hewn on Norweigan hill, to be the mast / of some great ammiral, were but a wand, / He walked with to support uneasy steps”

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Leaves Epic Simile

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“His legions, angel forms, who lay entrenched / Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks / in Vallombrosa”

27
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S reminding his angels what they have lost

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“Warriors, the flower of Heav’n, once yours, now lost”

28
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S provoking the demons saying they swear to love God

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“in this abject posture have ye sworn / to adore the conqueror”

29
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Giving his demons options,

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“Awake, arise, or be for ever fall’n”

30
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Demons responding to Satan’s voice

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“Yet to their general’s voice they soon obeyed / Innumerable”

31
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Demons = locusts

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“pitchy cloud / Of locusts … / were those bad angels”

32
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Demons = Barbarians

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“like which the populous North / Poured from her frozen loins … / when her barbarous sons / Came like a deluge on the South”

33
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Demons = imitations of god

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“godlike shapes and forms”

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Demons = idols = false worship

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“devils to adore for deities” “various idols through the heathen world”

35
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Demons to exploit mankind

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“Roaming to seek their prey on earth”

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Demons corrupt religion - blasphemy (altars)

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“Their seats long after next the seat of God, / Their altars by his altar, gods adored”

37
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Description of Moloch

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“First Moloch, horrid king besmeared with blood / Of human sacrifice and parents’ tears”

38
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shapelessness of demons

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“Not tied or manacled with joint or limb … but in what shape they choose / dilated or condensed, bright or obscure,”

39
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use of egyptian gods

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“Osiris, Isis, Orus and their train / With monstrous shapes and sorceries abused”

40
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use of titans & greek mythology

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“Titan Heav’n’s first-born / With his enormous brood” “Cold Olympus”

41
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narrator questioning the sincerity of Satan’s words

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“with high words, that bore, / Semblance of worth, not substance, gently raised / Their fainting courage, and dispelled their fears”

42
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The glamour and fake light of the decoration of the army

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“the glittering staff unfurled / Th’ imperial ensign, which full high advanced / Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind / With gems and golden luster rich emblazed”

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Portraying Satan’s bravery

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“instead of rage / Deliberate valor breathed”

44
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the unified nature of the army

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“Breathing united force with fixed thought”, “a horrid front / Of dreadful length and dazzling arms”

45
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Satan’s pride

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“his heart / Distends with pride”

46
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Expression of Satan - exposing his emotions

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“Deep scars of thunder had intrenched … but under his brows / Of dauntless courage, and considerate pride / Waiting revenge” “signs of remorse and passion”

47
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The damage inflicted by Heaven’s fire

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“Their glory withered: as when Heaven’s fire / Hath scathed the forest oaks”

48
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Satan crying

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“Thrice he essayed, and thrice, in spite of scorn / Tears such as angels weep burst forth”

49
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describing God as a monarch in Heav’n ruling by old repute

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“But he who reigns / Monarch in Heav’n, till then as one secure / Sat on his throne, upheld by old repute, / Consent or custom”

50
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Satan proclaiming they will not be held by Hell, demons choose rebellion

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“For this infernal pit shall never hold / Celestial Spirits in bondage”, “Hurling defiance toward the vault of Heav’n”

51
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Mammon’s description

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“Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell / From Heav’n, for ev’n in Heav’n his looks and thoughts / Were always downward bent, admiring more / The riches of Heav’n’s pavement, trodden gold, / Than aught divine or holy”

52
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Demons violating the earth

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“Ransacked the center, and with impious hands, / Rifled the bowels of their mother earth”, “Opened into the hill a spacious wound / And digged out ribs of gold”

53
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Musical similes to describe the construction of Pandemonium

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“As in an organ from one blast of wind / To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.” “Rose like an exhalation, with the sound / Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet”

54
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Pandemonium’s imitation of Heaven’s light

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“Built like a temple”, “golden architrave”, “yielded light / As from a sky.”

55
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Parliament like system to be held

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“the host proclaim / A solemn council to be held”

56
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inversion of Panetheon

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“Pandemonium, the high capitol / Of Satan and his peers”

57
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Bee Simile

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“Thick swarmed, both on the ground and in the air, / Brushed with the hiss of rustling wings”, “As bees / In springtime, … / Pour forth their populous youth about the hive / In clusters”, “So thick the aery crowd / Swarmed”

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Demons gather for the counsel

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“A thousand demi-gods on golden seats / Frequent and full” “The great consult began”

59
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Demons compared to fairy elves

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“they on their mirth and dance / Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; / At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.”

60
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compared to a royal court

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“of that infernal court”

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