Paradise Lost Book 9 Quotes Flashcards
“Dictates to me slumbering”
Milton’s Invocation, and justification of his choice of subject 23
Referring to the angel Uriel who came to him in a dream to get him to write PL
“I must now change these notes to tragic”
Milton’s Invocation, and justification of his choice of subject 5-6
The tragedy is the fall of mankind
“Distance and distaste, anger and just rebuke, and justice given”
Milton’s Invocation, and justification of his choice of subject 9-10
Foreshadowing/ summarising the story of genesis
“In meditated fraud and malice, bent on man’s destruction, maugre what may heap heavier than himself”
Satan sneaks back into Eden 54-56
“The space of seven continual nights he rode in darkness”
Satan sneaks back into Eden 63
Shows how much effort he put into getting into Eden
“Satan involved in rising mist”
Satan sneaks back into Eden 75
“Fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud”
Satan chooses the snake as his vessel 89
“O Earth, how like to heaven, if not preferred”
Satan’s first monologue 99
Praising beauty of Earth
“For what God after better worse would build?”
Satan’s first monologue 102
Antithesis - “Better worse”
Blasphemous, suggesting God made mistakes first time round
“With what delight could I have walked thee round”
Satan’s first monologue 114
Appreciating Earth’s beauty
“The more I see pleasures about me, so much more I feel torment within me”
Satan’s first monologue 119-121
Goodness of Earth is tormenting him - jealous
“Only in destroying I find ease to my relentless thoughts”
Satan’s first monologue 129-130
Power in destroying makes him feel better
“A creature formed of Earth, and him endow, exalted from so base original, with Heavenly spoils, our spoils”
Satan’s first monologue 149-151
Man is made of clay
Jealous of treatment of man compared to angels - he rebelled instead of serving mankind
“The serpent sleeping, in whose mazie folds to hide me, and the dark intent I bring”
Satan’s first monologue 161-162
Decides on the snake to hide himself
“O foul descent!”
Satan’s monologue 163
He’s unhappy he has to go from being an angel to a snake
“That I who erst contented with Gods to sit the highest, am now constrained into a beast and mixed with bestial slime”
Satan’s first monologue 163-165
Again unhappy to be lowered to a snake - hurts his pride
Pluralised Gods = blasphemy
“But what will not ambition and revenge descend to?”
Satan’s first monologue 168-169
“Revenge, at first though sweet, bitter ere long back on itself recoils; let it”
Satan’s first monologue 171-173
He’s aware of potential consequences but is willing to take revenge anyway
“Like a black mist low creeping”
Describing Satan becoming snake 180
“On the grassy herb unfeared he slept”
The snake (innocent) sleeps 186-187
“In at his mouth the Devil entered”
Satan enters snake 186-187
“The humid flowers, that breath’d their morning incense”
Morning in Eden 193-194
“Forth came in the human pair and joined their vocal worship”
Morning in Eden 197-198
Adam and Eve enter to join morning bliss of nature
“Our pleasant task enjoined, but till more hands aid us, the work under our labour grows luxurious by restraint”
Eve arguing to split up 207-209
Until they have kids there’s too much work to do everything together - seems sensible
“Let us divide our labours”
Eve asks Adam to work separately 214
“Looks intervene and smiles, or object new casual discourse”
Eve asks Adam to work separately 222-223
Saying they can still see each other while doing different tasks - marital love
“Sole Eve, associate sole”
Adam’s response to Eve’s request to work alone 227
“Nothing lovelier can be found in woman than to study household good”
Adam’s response to Eve’s request to work alone 232-233
Gender roles, politely telling her no
“For smiles from reason flow, to Brute denied, and are of Love the food”
Adam’s response to Eve’s request to work alone 239-240
Wants to be near her, aware of angel Raphael’s warning of an incoming enemy
Marital love
“Least harm befall thee severd from me”
Adam’s response to Eve’s request to work alone 251
Reminding her of enemy coming, concerned for her safety
“What malicious foe envying our happiness, and of his own despairing, seeks to work us woe and shame by sly assault”
Adam’s response to Eve’s request to work alone 233-236
Discussing coming enemy
“Whether his first design be to withdraw our fealtie from God or to disturb conjugal love”
Adam’s response to Eve’s request to work alone 261-263
Discussing incoming enemy’s intentions
“Wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, safest and seemliest by her husband stays”
Adam’s response to Eve’s request to work alone 268-269
“As we, not capable of death or pain can either not receive or can repell.”
Eve’s counterargument for working alone 283-284
“Thy equal fear that my firm Faith and Love can by his fraud be shak’n or seduc’t; Thoughts, which how found they harbour in thy breast Adam, missthought of her to thee so dear?”
Eve’s counterargument for working alone 287-290
Manipulating Adam by asking how he can believe that she could be deceived so easily
“Thou art, from sin and blame entire, not diffedent”
Adam’s still convincing her to stay with him 292
“Thou thyself with scorn and anger would resent the offered wrong”
Adam’s still convincing her to stay with him 299-300
Saying that she would turn down Satan
“How are we happy, still in fear of harm?”
Eve’s final argument to work alone 326
“His foul esteem sticks no dishonor on our front, but turns foul on himself”
Eve’s final argument to work alone 329-331
Presenting a united front but naive
“What is faith, love, virtue unassaid”
Eve’s final argument to work alone 335
Saying these qualities should be tested
“God left free the will”
Adam shows he’s going to allow Eve to leave 351
“Go; for thy stay, not free, absents thee more; Go in thy native innocence”
Adam allows her to go even though he doesn’t want her to 372-372
“the Patriarch of Mankind”
Milton describing Adam 376
“from her husbands hand her hand soft she withdrew”
Eve goes off to work alone 385
“Her long with ardent look his eye pursued delighted, but desiring more her stay”
Adam watches Eve go 397
He’s happy because she’s happy, but would prefer for her to have stayed
“O much deceav’d, much failing, hapless Eve, of thy presumed return! Event perverse!”
Milton expresses disappointment in Eve for leaving to work alone 404-405
“He sought them both, but wished his hap might find Eve separate”
Satan looks for his victims 421-422
“His malice, with rapin sweet bereaved”
Satan sees Eve and she’s so beautiful he stops in his tracks 461
“Stupidly good, of enmitie disarmed, of guild, of hate, of envie, of revenge”
Satan sees Eve and she’s so beautiful he stops in his tracks 465-466
“The woman, opportune to all attempts, her husband, for I view farr round, not nigh”
Satan notices Adam is not around and sees his opportunity 481-482
“She fair, divinely fair, fit Love for Gods”
Satan describes Eve’s beauty 489
Classical reference - Greek gods had sex with human women
“his head crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes, with burnisht neck of verdant gold, erect amidst his cricling spires”
Milton describes the snake’s physical appeal 499-502
“Fawning, and licked the ground whereon she stood”
Satan approaches Eve like a snake would 526
“his fraudulant temptation thus began”
Satan begins tempting Eve 531
“Sovereign mistress”
Satan addresses Eve 532
“thy Celestial Beautie adore with ravishment beheld, there best beheld where universally admires”
Satan’s first temptation speech 540-541
Suggesting her beauty deserves to be seen by more than just Eden
“this enclosure wild”
Satan’s first temptation speech 542
Insulting Eden
“who shouldst be seen a goddess among gods, adored and served”
Satan’s first temptation speech 546-547
Saying she should be the same level as god
“So gloz’d the tempter”
End of Satan’s first temptation speech 549
“How camst thou speakable of mute”
Eve’s response to first temptation speech 563
Confused at how a snake can talk
“the guileful tempter thus reply’d”
Milton description of Satan 567
“Empress of this fair world, resplendent Eve”
Satan flatters Eve 568
“A goodly tree… loaden with fruit of fairest colours mixt, ruddie and gold”
Satan describes the tree of knowledge 576-578
“smell of sweetest fennel”
Satan describes the tree of knowledge 581
“alluring fruit”
Satan describes the tree of knowledge 587
“high from ground the branches would require thy utmost reach or Adams”
Satan describes the tree of knowledge 590-591
Only humans can reach the fruit (but the snake climbs it)
“All other beasts that saw, with like desire longing and envying stood”
Satan describes the tree of knowledge 592-593
All animals want the fruit and watch the snake eat it jealously
“I spared not, for such pleasure till that hour at feed or fountain never had I found”
Satan describes the tree of knowledge 596-597
Describes the snake eating the fruit
“I turnd my thoughts and with capacious mind considered all things visible in Heaven, or Earth, or Middle”
Satan describes the tree of knowledge 603-605
Claiming the fruit gave the snake higher knowledge
“Worship thee of right declared sovereign of creatures, universal dame”
Satan claims after eating the fruit he was compelled to worship Eve 611-612
“Where grows the tree, from hence how far?”
Eve is interested in the tree 617
“in such abundance lies our choice”
Eve describes how much fruit is in Eden 620
“the wily Adder, blithe and glad”
Milton describes the snake 625
“I can bring thee thither soon
Lead then, said Eve”
Satan offers to take Eve to the tree and she accepts 630-631
“Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the tree of prohibition, root of all our woe”
Milton describes Satan bringing her to the tree 644-645
“We might have spared our coming hither”
Eve shows she has no intentions of eating the fruit 647
“of this tree we may not taste or touch; God so commanded”
Eve explains that the tree is banned 651-652
“Ye shall not eate thereof, nor shall ye touch it, least ye die”
Eve recounts God’s words 662-663
She exaggerates, he never said they couldn’t touch it
“The Tempter all impassioned thus began”
Satan begins another persuasion attempt 678
“O sacred, wise and wisdom-giving plant”
Satan addresses the tree 679
“Ye shall not die: How should ye? by the fruit? it gives you Life to Knowledge”
Satan reassures Eve 685-687”
“Look on me, me who have touched and tasted, yet both live”
Satan uses himself as proof she’ll be fine 687-688
“Shall that be shut to man which to the beast is open?”
Satan appeals to Eve’s ambition of being top of the hierarchy 691-692
“Will God incense his ire for such a petty trespass”
Satan denounces God’s words 692-693
“God therefore cannot hurt ye and be just”
Satan denounces God’s words 700
“Why but to keep ye low and ignorant”
Satan suggests that God didn’t want them to eat and not be inferior to him 704-705
“Ye shall be as Gods”
Satan tempts Eve 708
“Goddess humane, reach then, and freely taste”
Satan finishes this speech 732
“his words replete with guile into her heart too easy entrance won”
Eve wavers 734
“his persuasive words, impregnd with reason”
Can see that Eve is a bit tempted 737
“Great are thy virtues, doubtless, best of fruits”
Eve talking to herself 745
Reminiscent of Satan worshipping tree
“That one beast which first hath tasted envies not”
Eve talking to herself 769-770
Fully believes Satan, irony as he does envy
“her rash hand in evil hour forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate”
Eve eats the fruit 780-781
“Earth felt the wound”
Nature reacts to Eve eating the fruit 782
“Back to the thicket slunk the guilty serpent”
Satan leaves having got Eve to sin 784-785
“Greedily she engorged without restraint”
Eve continues eating 791
(Hasn’t noticed Satan leave)
“O sovereign, virtuous, precious of all trees”
Eve begins almost worshipping the tree 795
Echoing Satan
“by thee I grow mature in knowledge”
Eve addressing tree after eating 803
“other care perhaps may have diverted from continual watch our great Forbidder”
Eve thinks she’s gotten away with it and God hasn’t seen 813-815
“keep the odds of knowledge in my power without copartner?”
Eve debates whether to tell Adam about the knowledge from the tree 820-821
“render me more equal”
Eve debating whether to tell Adam 823
“for inferior who is free?”
Eve debating telling Adam 825
“then I shall be no more and Adam wedded to another Eve”
Eve debating telling Adam 827-828
“Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe”
Eve decides to get Adam to eat 831
“So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life”
Eve debating telling Adam 832-833
“Adam the while waiting desirous her return, had wove of choicest flowers a garland”
Adam waits for Eve having made her a flower crown 838-840
“in her hand a bough of fairest fruit”
Eve has brought some fruit with her for Adam 850-851
“this tree is not as we are told”
Eve starts trying to persuade Adam 863
“of divine effects to open eyes and make them gods who taste”
Eve explains the fruits effects 865-866
“the serpent wise”
Eve begins trying to persuade Adam 867
“I have also tasted, and have also found the effects to correspond”
Eve admits having sinned 874-875
“dim erst, dilated spirits, ampler heart”
Eve describes the effects of the fruit 876
“thou therefore also taste, that equal lot may join us, equal joy, as equal love”
Eve tells Adam to eat 881-882
“in her cheek distempter flushing glowed”
Eve blushes having told Adam she ate 887
“Adam, soon as he heard the fatal trespass done by Eve, amazed, astonished stood”
Adam is shocked having heard what Eve did 888-890
“from the slack hand the garland wreathed for Eve down dropped”
Adam drops the flower crown he made for Eve out of shock 892-893
“O fairest of creation, last and best of all God’s works”
Adam thinks to himself about Eve 896-897
“How art thou lost”
Adam’s still shocked about Eve eating 900
“defaced, deflowered and now to death devote?”
Adam shocked about Eve eating 901
“and me with thee hath ruined, for with thee certain my resolution is to die”
Adam is annoyed at Eve 906-907
“How can I live without thee”
Adam annoyed at Eve 908
“but past who can recall, or done undo?”
Adam accepts they can’t turn back now 926
“perhaps thou shalt not die”
Adam tries to rationalise eating the fruit 928
“Nor can I think that God, Creator wise, though threatening, will in earnest so destroy us his prime creatures”
Adam tries to rationalise eating 938-940
“my own in thee, for what thou art is mine; our flesh cannot be severed, we are one”
Adam rationalises eating through his love for Eve 957-958
“Adam, from whose dear side I boast me sprung”
Eve flatters Adam, glad he’s going to eat 965
“to undergo with me one guilt, one crime”
Eve is glad Adam will eat 971
“Were it I thought death menaced would ensue this my attempt, I would sustain alone”
Eve is glad Adam will eat 977-978
“Adam, freely taste, and fear of death deliver to the winds”
Eve tells Adam to eat 988-989
“she embraced him, and for joy tenderly wept”
Eve is glad Adam will eat 990-991
“he scrupled not to eat against his better knowledge”
Adam knows he shouldn’t eat 997-998
“not deceived but fondly overcome with female charm”
Adam was seduced into eating 998-99
“Earth trembled from her entrails”
Nature reacts to Adam eating 1000
“Sky loured and muttering thunder, some sad drops wept”
Nature reacts to Adam eating 1002-1003
Pathetic fallacy
“as with new wine intoxicated both”
The effects of the fruit 1008
“carnal desire inflaming; he on Eve began to cast lascivious eyes”
Adam looks at Eve lustfully after eating 1013-1014
“in lust they burn”
Adam and Eve after eating fruit 1015
“much pleasure we have lost, while we abstained from this delightful fruit”
Adam’s initial reacting to eating fruit 1022-1023
“so inflame my sense with ardour to enjoy thee, fairer now than ever”
Adam’s lustful after eating 1031-1033
“her hand he seized, and to a shady bank, thick overhead with verdant roof”
Adam takes Eve to a bank (for sex) 1037-1038
“they took their fill of love and love’s disport took largely”
They had sex1042-1043
“innocence, that as a veil had shadowed them from knowing ill, was gone”
Adam and Eve wake up the day after the fall
“naked left to guilty shame he covered”
Adam and Eve feel naked now so cover up 1057-1058
“Eve, in evil hour thou didst give ear to that false worm”
Adam begins to blame Eve 1067-1068
“How shall I behold the face henceforth of God or angel”
Adam feels guilty the morning after 1080-1081
“together sewed to gird their waist, covering if to hid their naked guilt and dreaded shame”
Adam and Eve make clothes from leaves to cover up 1112-1114
“Would thou hadst hearkened my words and stayed with me”
Adam says he wishes Eve hadn’t gone to work alone 1134-1135
“shamed, naked, miserable”
Adam blaming Eve for the fall 1139
“Was I to have never parted from your side?”
Eve suggests Adam’s being unreasonable - blaming eachother 1153
“Hadst thou been firm and fixed in thy dissent, neither had I transgressed, nor thou with me?”
Eve says she wishes Adam had been firmer 1160-1161
“ingrateful Eve”
Adam’s angry at Eve 1164
“Thus they in mutual accusation spent the fruitless hours, but neither self-comdemning, and of their vain contest appeared no end”
Adam and Eve continue to be angry with eachother 1187-1189
End of Book 9.
