Paradise Lost Flashcards
Explaining God’s Ways
‘what in me is dark/ Illumine, what is low raise and support;/ That to the height of this great argument/ I may assert Eternal Providence,/ And justify the ways of God to men.’ - Book 1, ‘Yet fell; remember, and fear to transgress.’ END of Book 6, ‘Did wisely to conceal and not divulge’ - Book 8, ‘man over men/ He made not lord’ - Book 12
Revenge
study of revenge, immortal hate,/ And courage never to submit or yield:/ And what else not to be overcome?’ - Book 1
Omniscience
‘[…] Till then who knew/ The force of those dire arms?’ - Book 1,
The Mind
‘The mind is its own place, and in itself/ Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.’ - Book 1…also refers to the mind in his book 4 soliloquy
Heaven and Hell
‘Heav’n resembles Hell’ - Book 2, ‘render Hell/ More tolerable’, ‘Purest at first, now gross by sinning grown.’ - Book 6
Man’s free will
‘I made him just and right,/ Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.’ - Book 3, ‘self-tempted, self-depraved’ - Book 3, ‘Happiness in his power left free to will,/ Left to his own free will, his will though free,/ Yet mutable’ - Book 5
Satan on Adam and Eve
‘which way shall I fly/ Infinite wrath, and infinite despair?/ Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell’ - Book 4, ‘evil be thou my good’
Adam and Eve description
’ He for God only, she for God in him’ - Book 4, ‘Let us make now man in our image’ - Book 7, ‘Of nature her th’inferior, in the mind/ And inward faculties’ - Book 8, ‘danger or dishonor lurks [in Eve]’ ‘Part of our sentence, that thy seed shall bruise/ The serpent’s head’, ‘A paradise within thee’ - Book 12
Adultery
‘By thee adulterous lust was driven from men’ - Book 4
Eating Apple
for with thee/ Certain my resolution is to die’ - Book 9, ‘from thy state/ Mine never shall be parted’ , ‘nature gave a second groan’
