Key Quotations - Satan Flashcards
1
Q
Torment of pleasures
A
‘The more I see pleasures about me, so much more I feel torment within me’
2
Q
Satan was an original Angel
A
‘Servitude Inglorious’
3
Q
Going down the hierarchy
A
‘O foul descent!’
4
Q
Satan on snakes
A
‘The Serpent suttlest Beast of all the Field’
5
Q
Idea of ambition and revenge
A
‘But what will not Ambition and Revenge Descend to?’
6
Q
Adam compared to Eve
A
‘Higher intellectual’
7
Q
Blasphemous and hubristic, flattering Eve
A
‘A Goddess among Gods’
‘Celestial Beautie’
‘Sovran Mistress’
‘Goddess humane’
8
Q
Eve is the ‘fairest’ and ‘goodest’ thing he has seen
A
‘Declar’d Sovran of creatures, universal Dame’
9
Q
Blasphemous name for God used by Satan
A
‘The Threatner’
