Key quotes PL IX Flashcards
“I must now
change these notes to tragic”
“celestial
patroness” - muse is an epic convention
“mediated
fraud and malice, bent on man’s destruction”
“fittest
imp of fraud”
Satan’s soliloquy - “terrestrial
heaven”
“for only in
destroying I find ease to my relentless thoughts”
“freed
from servitude inglorious”
“now constrained
into a beast, and mixed with bestial slime”
Satan’s two motivations
“ambition and revenge”
how can we see the revenge tragedy
Satan says that “spite then with spite is best repaid” in his soliloquy
how does Satan show that he is snake-like before he even becomes one
“in labyrinth of many a round self-rolled” - tangles him up in himself and his thoughts
“the human
pair”
Morning worship
“vocal worship”
“let us
divide our labours”
“for nothing lovelier can
be found in woman than to study household good”
“malicious
foe envying our happiness”
Eve says that Satan “seeks
our ruin”
“the wife […] safest
and seemliest by her husband, who guards her”
before they separate, they talk about “falling into
deception unaware”
“weaker
seek” (sex)
Milton’s narration describes Eve as
“like a wood-nymph”
male gaze from Adam
“his eye pursued delighted, but desiring”
Milton’s interjection
“O much deceived, much failing, hapless Eve! Event perverse!”
Satan “sought them
both, but wished his hap might find Eve separate”
Eve is the “fairest
unsupported flower”
Manichaen theodicy
“but the hot hell that always in him burns”
Satan talks of Adam as
a “higher intellectual” and having more “strength”
Satan as a snake
“circling spires” - paradoxical description as he is impossible to imagine
Satan’s goal is to
“lure her eye”
Satan’s flattery - 2 quotes
- “thy celestial beauty”
- “goddess amongst gods”
from eating the fruit, Satan says that he
gained “reason” and “knowledge of good and evil”
Satan’s rhetoric is compared to
“some orator renowned in Athens or free Rome”
names Milton uses for God and Satan
the “threatener” and the “tempter”
Eve’s appetite is
“eager”
Eve eating the fruit
“she plucked, she ate, earth felt the wound” and “all was lost”
Eve’s greediness eating
“she engorged without restraint”
Eve’s jealousy
“I shall be no more, and Adam wedded to another Eve, I extinct”
Eve’s temptation to Adam
“bland words”
flower garland
“horror chill ran through his veins”
“garland dropped down and all the faded roses shed”
Adam and Eve’s relationship post-fall
“me with thee hath ruined”
Intoxication
“as with new wine intoxicated, they swim in mirth and fancy that they feel divinity within them”
Uxuriousness
“not deceived, but fondly overcome with female charm” - calvinist (fate)
Shady bank
“her hand he sized and to a shady bank he led her”
post-lapsarian sex
“their minds darkened” “unclean”
last line of book nine
“the fruitless hours.. appeared no end” - arguing
