fallen angels 2 Flashcards
beelzebub in his first speech tries to comfort satan but it ends with a
question asking if they are subject
“to undergo eternal punishment?”
satan the mind can make
the mind is its own place and in tself
can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven
chiasmus of the mind is its own place and itself / can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven
significance
trap
inversion
twisted
what do fallen angels need to be revived according to beelzebub
to hear his voice and then they
“will soon resume / New courage and revive”
moloch our proper motions
in our proper motion we ascend / up to our native seat
moloch abhorred deep
abhorred deep of utter woe
before belial speaks we are warned
he seemed / for dignity composed and high exploit, / But all was false and hollow
milton wants to warn us, gives a form of dramatic irony
belial’s tongue could
“tongue” “perplex and dash”
belial calls hell a ?
moloch calls it a den of ?
refuge
den of shame
angels are fragmenting
Mammon
as he our darkness, cannot
as he our darkness, cannot we his light / imitate when we please
what happens to the angels once satan leaves
they “disband and wand’ring each his several way”
they’re left “perplexed”