Key quotes PL X Flashcards
first line
“meanwhile the heinous and despiteful act of Satan done in paradise”
“deserved..
to fall”
“the angelic guards ascended
mute and sad for man”
Jesus
“destined man himself to judge man fallen”
God is a __ judge
“mild judge” - AO5 CS Lewis said He was “fair”
what did Adam and Eve do when God came
“hid themselves among the thickest trees”
“despair”
etymologically meant ‘without God’
Eve’s admission
“the serpent me beguiled and I did eat”
how does Jesus punish the snake
“upon thy belly grovelling thou shalt go”
“her seed shall bruise thy head, thou bruise his heel”
eve’s punishment from Jesus
“to thy husband’s will thine shall submit, he over thee shall rule”
Man’s two punishments
- “in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread”
- “for thou art dust, and to dust return”
when were Sin and Death first introduced
Book 2
what are Sin and Death
allegorical characters
what does Sin call Satan
“our great author” who “thrives”
Death’s description
“meagre shadow”
when Sin and Death are together, what is “great”
their “power”
quotation for the bridge
“smooth, easy, inoffensive down to hell” - allegory of life as a metaphor for christianity
Sin is misled about Satan’s achievements
“thou hast achieved our liberty” and “fully avenged our foil in Heaven” - exaggeration
How is Satan described with Sin and Death
“prince of darkness”
give an example of how Satan in Hell upholds a Miltonian epic
Assembly of snakes
when Satan sits on his throne, what does Milton say
“false glitter”
etymology of Milton and the “apple”
in Latin, mallum means evil, but mallus means apple.
what does he call his snakes?
“ye gods” - blasphemous.
how do the snakes react to Satan’s speech?
“a dismal universal hiss, the sound of public scorn”
after Satan’s speech, what happens to him?
he turns into a snake with the rest of his followers
as a snake, how do they know which one is Satan?
“still greatest he”
what is an echo to man’s fall when they turn to snakes?
they “greedily pluck” fruit from trees. Direct quote taken from B9
what happens to the fruit that the snakes eat?
it turns to “bitter ashes” - link to Tantalus’s punishment.
what does Milton call Sin?
“Sin-born monster”
Give an example of how Death is hard to envision as a character
“unhide-bound corpse”
what is Sin and Death’s plan for Earth?
for Sin to corrupt man to make him tastier for Death
how does God describe Sin and Death?
“dogs of hell”
when does God say Sin and Death will be defeated?
Judgement Day
how does God change Earth after the fall?
Physical changes - seasons.
AO3 - Renaissance astronomy
“centric globe”
when Adam complains
“troubled sea of passion” - excusing his behaviour? Anti-feminist?
Adam’s nihilism
“what can I increase or multiply but curses?”
Adam says he was “unable to
perform” to God’s high expectations as man
Adam says he wishes he could die
“how gladly I would meet mortality my sentence” - the cruellest part of God’s sentence is that he must live
Arminianism - quote to show how man didn’t serve God with free will so now they have lost it
“both mind and will depraved”
how does Adam describe Eve
“that bad woman” who “destroys all hope”
instead of being uxorious, Adam
“curses his creation”
Adam tells Eve to get “out of my
sight, thou serpent”
Adam criticises woman:
“all but a rib crooked”
Milton as an antifeminist - he says that woman is a
“defect of nature”
Adam says that Eve has “perverseness”. Links to
Book 9 with Milton’s exclamation - “event perverse”
Eve’s humiliation
Romanticised, perverse image of humiliation is sexualised - “tresses all disordered, at his feet fell” “submissive in distress”
Adam’s uxoriousness in Book 10 is back:
“soon his heart relented towards towards her”
Bona fides - God will save them
God will “instruct us praying”
Last line of the text
“sorrow unfeigned and humiliation meek”
