paradise lost

Question 1

satan lines 38-70

‘the sun was sunk, and after him the star’

‘satan who late fled before the threats’

‘of heavier on himself, fearless returned’

Answer 1

setting satan’s entrance

fall necessary to attain free will?’

the scene is set as it is surrounded by fallen angels

satan has been kicked out of heaven

he feels as though he has not got much to lose

Question 2

satan lines 38-70

‘he circled, four times crossed the car of Night … On the eight returned

Answer 2

before satan was planning with all the rebel angels on how he plans to get back

now he has been casted out of the garden by god

‘circled’ circling the earth to stay ahead of God

‘crossed the car of night’- space of darkness; he is hidden, metaphorical symbol

‘on the eight returned’- parallelism of destruction - it took God 7 days to make earth

Question 3

on satan lines 71 to 106

‘where to lie hid; sea he had searched and land’

‘to the ocean barred At Darien… to the land where flows Ganges and Indus’

‘the serpent subtlest beast of all the field’

Answer 3

lines 71 to 106

connotes castness, panoramic, expansive

an increasing sense of panorama

finding somewhere to hide in fear of god

‘subtlest beast’- indirect, disguised, clever, unknown, less receptive, not imposing

Question 4

satans first soliloquy
lines 71-106