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Book 2 Flashcards

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Describing Satan on his throne

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“High on a throne of royal state”, “Satan exalted sat, by merit raised / To that bad eminence”

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Try to validate and justify his throne

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“safe unenvied throne / Yielded with full consent.”, “who here / will envy whom the highest place exposes / Foremost to stand against the Thunderer’s aim”

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Proposing war not giving an option for peace

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“Whether of open war or covert guile, / We now debate; who can advise, may speak”

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Moloch - what could be worse than to stay in hell

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“what can be worse / Than to dwell here, driven out from bliss, condemned / In this abhorred deep to utter woe”

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Moloch - thinks they are strong enough to fight God

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“Our power sufficient to disturb his Heav’n”

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Moloch - aim is revenge

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“if not victory is yet revenge”

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Belial -

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“he seemed / For dignity composed … / But all was false and hollow”

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Belial - insincere and hollow

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“he seemed / For dignity composed … / But all was false and hollow”

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Belial - describing his lazy nature

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“his thought were low, / To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds / Timorous and slothful”

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Belial - saying how untouchable God is

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“our great enemy / All incorruptible, would on his throne / Sit unpolluted, and th’ ethereal mold / Incapable of stain”

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Belial - describing how bad death is

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“for who would lose, / Though full of pain, this intellectual being, … / swallowed up and lost, / In the wide womb of uncreated night, / Devoid of sense or motion?

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Belial - directly addressing Moloch’s argument, saying it isn’t worse to stay in hell

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“Is this then worst, / Thus sitting, thus consulting, thus in arms?”

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Belial’s tripartite construction on what would be worse

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“Unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved / … this would be worse.”

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Belial proposes inaction

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“Better these than worse / By my advice”

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Belial’s well spoken but empty words

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“with words clothes in reason’s garb / Counseled ignoble ease and peaceful sloth / Not Peace”

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Mammon - mocking worshipping God though hymns

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“celebrate his throne / With warbled hymns, and to his Godhead sing / Forced hallelujahs”

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Mammon - renouncing servitude in heaven and proposing to stay free in hell

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“Eternity so spent in worship paid / To whom we hate”, “Hard liberty before the easy yoke / Of servile pomp”

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Mammon - proposes imitating God’s light

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“As he our darkness, cannot we his light, / Imitate when we please?”

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comparing the demon’s speech to the wind

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“as when hollow rocks retain / The sound of blust’ring winds, which all night long / Had roused the sea, now with hoarse cadence lull / Seafaring men o’erwatched”

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Beezlebub’s physical state

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“in his rising seemed / A pillar of state”, “Majestic though in ruin”, “Atlantean shoulders fit to bear / The weight of mightiest monarchies

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Beezlebub countering Mammon saying they were free in hell

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“In strictest bondage” “captive multitude”, “but over Hell extend / His empire, and with iron scepter rule / Us here, as with his golden those in Heav’n”

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Beezlebub proposing they find an easier option

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“What if we find / Some easier enterprise?”

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Beezlebub mentioning the creation of humans

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“To be created like to us, though less / in power and excellence, but favoured more / Of him who rules above”

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Beezlebub proposing to seduce humans due to their weakness

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“may lie exposed, / The utmost border of his kingdom, left / To their defense”, “Seduce them to our party, that their God / May prove their foe and with repenting hand / Abolish his own works”

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Beezlebub on the fall of humans

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“his darling sons / Hurled headlong to partake with us, shall curse / Their frail original”

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the demons blindly follow

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“joy / Sparkled in all their eyes; with full assent / They vote”

27
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demons revealed to be cowards

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“all sat mute” “pondering the danger with deep thoughts; and each / In other’s count’nance read his own dismay” “None among the choice and prime / Of those Heav’n-warring champions”

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Satan trying to validate this power, saying he accepts the danger he is exposed to by being leader

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“Wherefore do I assume / These royalties, and not refuse to reign, / Refusing to accept as great a share / Of hazard as of honor, due alike / To him who reigns, and so much to him due / Of hazard more, as he above the rest / High honoured sits?”

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Satan announcing he will undergo the mission by himself

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“all the coasts of dark destruction seek / Deliverance for us all: this enterprise / None shall partake with me”

30
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Satan winning the respect he hasn’t earned

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“winning cheap the high repute / Which he through hazard huge must earn”

31
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Demons kneel before Satan in blashemous praise

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“Towards him they bend / With awful reverence prone; as a god / Extol him equal to the Highest of Heav’n”

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the hatred between humans

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“live in hatred, enmity, and strife / Among themselves, and levy cruel wars”

33
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demons entertain themselves while Satan is away

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“entertain / The irksome hours, till his great chief return”

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Satan’s title

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“the Adversary of God and man”

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Sin’s description

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“The one seemed a woman to the waist, and fair, / But ended foul in many a scaly fold / Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed / With mortal sting”

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Demons singing of their ‘bravery’

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“sing / with notes angelical to many a harp / Their own heroic deeds and hapless fall / By doom of battle”

37
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Demons seducing with their songs

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“took with ravishment / The thronging audience” “For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense”

38
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Demons arguing morals

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“Of good and evil much they argued”

39
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Narrator dimissing philosophy

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“Vain wisdom and false philosophy”

40
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Demons looking for easier dwellings

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“Might yield them easier habitation”

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Even though they explore Hell they only find death and hardship

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“Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, / A universe of death which God by curse / Created evil, for evil only good / Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds / Perverse”

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Satan trying to use his heavenly status but Death reminds him of his fallen nature

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“learn by proof, / Hell-born, not to contend with Spirits of Heav’n”, “traitor angel” “outcast from God”

43
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Satan stands to fight Death enraged

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“Incensed with indignation Satan stood / Unterrified, and like a comet burned / That fired the length of Ophiuchus huge”

44
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Sin revealing that Death is Satan’s son

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“What fury O son, / possesses thee to bend that mortal dart / Against thy father’s head?”

45
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Sin describing her emerging from Satan’s head

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“Likest to thee in shape and count’nance bright, / Then shining heav’nly fair, a goddess armed / out of thy head I sprung”

46
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Sin’s fall echoes the fall of Satan

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“Driv’n headlong from the pitch of Heaven”

47
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Sin describing her pregnancies, pregnancy = punishment

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“Pregnant by thee, and now excessive grown / Prodigious motion felt and rueful throes.”

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Visceral language to describe Death’s birth

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“Tore through my entrails, that with fear and pain / Distorted”

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Hell itself rejects Death

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“I fled and cried out ‘Death’; / Hell trembled at the hideous name”

50
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Satan seducing Sin and Death by using humans

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“there ye shall be fed and filled / Immeasurably, all things shall be your prey”, “A race of upstart creatures, to supply / Perhaps our vacant room”

51
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No one but God can escape Death

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“Save he who reigns above, none can resist”

52
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Satan persuading Sin and Death that he is not their enemy

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“I come no enemy, but to set free / From out this dark and dismal house of pain”

53
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Death grinning

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“Death / Grinned horrible a ghastly smile”

54
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Chaos

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Into this abyss / The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave

55
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Satan falling in Chaos

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Vain plumb down he drops

56
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Satan struggling to travel through chaos

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And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies

57
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Chaos letting Satan leave

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Havoc and spoil and ruin are my gain

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