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Paradise Lost Book 9 Quotes Flashcards

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“Dictates to me slumbering”

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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

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“I must now change these notes to tragic”

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Milton’s Invocation, and justification of his choice of subject 5-6
The tragedy is the fall of mankind

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“Distance and distaste, anger and just rebuke, and justice given”

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Milton’s Invocation, and justification of his choice of subject 9-10
Foreshadowing/ summarising the story of genesis

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“In meditated fraud and malice, bent on man’s destruction, maugre what may heap heavier than himself”

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Satan sneaks back into Eden 54-56

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“The space of seven continual nights he rode in darkness”

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Satan sneaks back into Eden 63
Shows how much effort he put into getting into Eden

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“Satan involved in rising mist”

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Satan sneaks back into Eden 75

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“Fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud”

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Satan chooses the snake as his vessel 89

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“O Earth, how like to heaven, if not preferred”

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Satan’s first monologue 99
Praising beauty of Earth

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“For what God after better worse would build?”

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Satan’s first monologue 102
Antithesis - “Better worse”
Blasphemous, suggesting God made mistakes first time round

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“With what delight could I have walked thee round”

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Satan’s first monologue 114
Appreciating Earth’s beauty

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“The more I see pleasures about me, so much more I feel torment within me”

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Satan’s first monologue 119-121
Goodness of Earth is tormenting him - jealous

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“Only in destroying I find ease to my relentless thoughts”

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Satan’s first monologue 129-130
Power in destroying makes him feel better

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“A creature formed of Earth, and him endow, exalted from so base original, with Heavenly spoils, our spoils”

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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

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“The serpent sleeping, in whose mazie folds to hide me, and the dark intent I bring”

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Satan’s first monologue 161-162
Decides on the snake to hide himself

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“O foul descent!”

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Satan’s monologue 163
He’s unhappy he has to go from being an angel to a snake

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“That I who erst contented with Gods to sit the highest, am now constrained into a beast and mixed with bestial slime”

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Satan’s first monologue 163-165
Again unhappy to be lowered to a snake - hurts his pride
Pluralised Gods = blasphemy

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“But what will not ambition and revenge descend to?”

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Satan’s first monologue 168-169

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“Revenge, at first though sweet, bitter ere long back on itself recoils; let it”

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Satan’s first monologue 171-173
He’s aware of potential consequences but is willing to take revenge anyway

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“Like a black mist low creeping”

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Describing Satan becoming snake 180

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“On the grassy herb unfeared he slept”

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The snake (innocent) sleeps 186-187

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“In at his mouth the Devil entered”

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Satan enters snake 186-187

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“The humid flowers, that breath’d their morning incense”

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Morning in Eden 193-194

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“Forth came in the human pair and joined their vocal worship”

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Morning in Eden 197-198
Adam and Eve enter to join morning bliss of nature

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“Our pleasant task enjoined, but till more hands aid us, the work under our labour grows luxurious by restraint”

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Eve arguing to split up 207-209
Until they have kids there’s too much work to do everything together - seems sensible

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“Let us divide our labours”

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Eve asks Adam to work separately 214

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“Looks intervene and smiles, or object new casual discourse”

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Eve asks Adam to work separately 222-223
Saying they can still see each other while doing different tasks - marital love

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“Sole Eve, associate sole”

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Adam’s response to Eve’s request to work alone 227

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28
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“Nothing lovelier can be found in woman than to study household good”

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Adam’s response to Eve’s request to work alone 232-233
Gender roles, politely telling her no

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“For smiles from reason flow, to Brute denied, and are of Love the food”

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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

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30
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“Least harm befall thee severd from me”

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Adam’s response to Eve’s request to work alone 251
Reminding her of enemy coming, concerned for her safety

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“What malicious foe envying our happiness, and of his own despairing, seeks to work us woe and shame by sly assault”

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Adam’s response to Eve’s request to work alone 233-236
Discussing coming enemy

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32
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“Whether his first design be to withdraw our fealtie from God or to disturb conjugal love”

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Adam’s response to Eve’s request to work alone 261-263
Discussing incoming enemy’s intentions

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33
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“Wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, safest and seemliest by her husband stays”

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Adam’s response to Eve’s request to work alone 268-269

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34
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“As we, not capable of death or pain can either not receive or can repell.”

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Eve’s counterargument for working alone 283-284

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35
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“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?”

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Eve’s counterargument for working alone 287-290
Manipulating Adam by asking how he can believe that she could be deceived so easily

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36
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“Thou art, from sin and blame entire, not diffedent”

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Adam’s still convincing her to stay with him 292

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37
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“Thou thyself with scorn and anger would resent the offered wrong”

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Adam’s still convincing her to stay with him 299-300
Saying that she would turn down Satan

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38
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“How are we happy, still in fear of harm?”

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Eve’s final argument to work alone 326

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“His foul esteem sticks no dishonor on our front, but turns foul on himself”

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Eve’s final argument to work alone 329-331
Presenting a united front but naive

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40
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“What is faith, love, virtue unassaid”

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Eve’s final argument to work alone 335
Saying these qualities should be tested

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41
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“God left free the will”

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Adam shows he’s going to allow Eve to leave 351

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42
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“Go; for thy stay, not free, absents thee more; Go in thy native innocence”

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Adam allows her to go even though he doesn’t want her to 372-372

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43
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“the Patriarch of Mankind”

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Milton describing Adam 376

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44
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“from her husbands hand her hand soft she withdrew”

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Eve goes off to work alone 385

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45
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“Her long with ardent look his eye pursued delighted, but desiring more her stay”

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Adam watches Eve go 397
He’s happy because she’s happy, but would prefer for her to have stayed

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46
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“O much deceav’d, much failing, hapless Eve, of thy presumed return! Event perverse!”

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Milton expresses disappointment in Eve for leaving to work alone 404-405

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47
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“He sought them both, but wished his hap might find Eve separate”

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Satan looks for his victims 421-422

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48
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“His malice, with rapin sweet bereaved”

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Satan sees Eve and she’s so beautiful he stops in his tracks 461

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49
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“Stupidly good, of enmitie disarmed, of guild, of hate, of envie, of revenge”

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Satan sees Eve and she’s so beautiful he stops in his tracks 465-466

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50
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“The woman, opportune to all attempts, her husband, for I view farr round, not nigh”

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Satan notices Adam is not around and sees his opportunity 481-482

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51
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“She fair, divinely fair, fit Love for Gods”

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Satan describes Eve’s beauty 489
Classical reference - Greek gods had sex with human women

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52
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“his head crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes, with burnisht neck of verdant gold, erect amidst his cricling spires”

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Milton describes the snake’s physical appeal 499-502

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53
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“Fawning, and licked the ground whereon she stood”

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Satan approaches Eve like a snake would 526

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54
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“his fraudulant temptation thus began”

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Satan begins tempting Eve 531

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55
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“Sovereign mistress”

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Satan addresses Eve 532

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56
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“thy Celestial Beautie adore with ravishment beheld, there best beheld where universally admires”

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Satan’s first temptation speech 540-541
Suggesting her beauty deserves to be seen by more than just Eden

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57
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“this enclosure wild”

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Satan’s first temptation speech 542
Insulting Eden

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“who shouldst be seen a goddess among gods, adored and served”

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Satan’s first temptation speech 546-547
Saying she should be the same level as god

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59
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“So gloz’d the tempter”

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End of Satan’s first temptation speech 549

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60
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“How camst thou speakable of mute”

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Eve’s response to first temptation speech 563
Confused at how a snake can talk

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61
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“the guileful tempter thus reply’d”

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Milton description of Satan 567

62
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“Empress of this fair world, resplendent Eve”

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Satan flatters Eve 568

63
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“A goodly tree… loaden with fruit of fairest colours mixt, ruddie and gold”

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Satan describes the tree of knowledge 576-578

64
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“smell of sweetest fennel”

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Satan describes the tree of knowledge 581

65
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“alluring fruit”

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Satan describes the tree of knowledge 587

66
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“high from ground the branches would require thy utmost reach or Adams”

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Satan describes the tree of knowledge 590-591
Only humans can reach the fruit (but the snake climbs it)

67
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“All other beasts that saw, with like desire longing and envying stood”

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Satan describes the tree of knowledge 592-593
All animals want the fruit and watch the snake eat it jealously

68
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“I spared not, for such pleasure till that hour at feed or fountain never had I found”

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Satan describes the tree of knowledge 596-597
Describes the snake eating the fruit

69
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“I turnd my thoughts and with capacious mind considered all things visible in Heaven, or Earth, or Middle”

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Satan describes the tree of knowledge 603-605
Claiming the fruit gave the snake higher knowledge

70
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“Worship thee of right declared sovereign of creatures, universal dame”

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Satan claims after eating the fruit he was compelled to worship Eve 611-612

71
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“Where grows the tree, from hence how far?”

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Eve is interested in the tree 617

72
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“in such abundance lies our choice”

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Eve describes how much fruit is in Eden 620

73
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“the wily Adder, blithe and glad”

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Milton describes the snake 625

74
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“I can bring thee thither soon
Lead then, said Eve”

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Satan offers to take Eve to the tree and she accepts 630-631

75
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“Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the tree of prohibition, root of all our woe”

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Milton describes Satan bringing her to the tree 644-645

76
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“We might have spared our coming hither”

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Eve shows she has no intentions of eating the fruit 647

77
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“of this tree we may not taste or touch; God so commanded”

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Eve explains that the tree is banned 651-652

78
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“Ye shall not eate thereof, nor shall ye touch it, least ye die”

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Eve recounts God’s words 662-663
She exaggerates, he never said they couldn’t touch it

79
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“The Tempter all impassioned thus began”

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Satan begins another persuasion attempt 678

80
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“O sacred, wise and wisdom-giving plant”

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Satan addresses the tree 679

81
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“Ye shall not die: How should ye? by the fruit? it gives you Life to Knowledge”

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Satan reassures Eve 685-687”

82
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“Look on me, me who have touched and tasted, yet both live”

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Satan uses himself as proof she’ll be fine 687-688

83
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“Shall that be shut to man which to the beast is open?”

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Satan appeals to Eve’s ambition of being top of the hierarchy 691-692

84
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“Will God incense his ire for such a petty trespass”

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Satan denounces God’s words 692-693

85
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“God therefore cannot hurt ye and be just”

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Satan denounces God’s words 700

86
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“Why but to keep ye low and ignorant”

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Satan suggests that God didn’t want them to eat and not be inferior to him 704-705

87
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“Ye shall be as Gods”

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Satan tempts Eve 708

88
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“Goddess humane, reach then, and freely taste”

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Satan finishes this speech 732

89
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“his words replete with guile into her heart too easy entrance won”

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Eve wavers 734

90
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“his persuasive words, impregnd with reason”

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Can see that Eve is a bit tempted 737

91
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“Great are thy virtues, doubtless, best of fruits”

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Eve talking to herself 745
Reminiscent of Satan worshipping tree

92
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“That one beast which first hath tasted envies not”

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Eve talking to herself 769-770
Fully believes Satan, irony as he does envy

93
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“her rash hand in evil hour forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate”

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Eve eats the fruit 780-781

94
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“Earth felt the wound”

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Nature reacts to Eve eating the fruit 782

95
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“Back to the thicket slunk the guilty serpent”

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Satan leaves having got Eve to sin 784-785

96
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“Greedily she engorged without restraint”

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Eve continues eating 791
(Hasn’t noticed Satan leave)

97
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“O sovereign, virtuous, precious of all trees”

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Eve begins almost worshipping the tree 795
Echoing Satan

98
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“by thee I grow mature in knowledge”

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Eve addressing tree after eating 803

99
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“other care perhaps may have diverted from continual watch our great Forbidder”

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Eve thinks she’s gotten away with it and God hasn’t seen 813-815

100
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“keep the odds of knowledge in my power without copartner?”

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Eve debates whether to tell Adam about the knowledge from the tree 820-821

101
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“render me more equal”

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Eve debating whether to tell Adam 823

102
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“for inferior who is free?”

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Eve debating telling Adam 825

103
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“then I shall be no more and Adam wedded to another Eve”

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Eve debating telling Adam 827-828

104
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“Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe”

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Eve decides to get Adam to eat 831

105
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“So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life”

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Eve debating telling Adam 832-833

106
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“Adam the while waiting desirous her return, had wove of choicest flowers a garland”

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Adam waits for Eve having made her a flower crown 838-840

107
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“in her hand a bough of fairest fruit”

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Eve has brought some fruit with her for Adam 850-851

108
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“this tree is not as we are told”

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Eve starts trying to persuade Adam 863

109
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“of divine effects to open eyes and make them gods who taste”

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Eve explains the fruits effects 865-866

110
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“the serpent wise”

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Eve begins trying to persuade Adam 867

111
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“I have also tasted, and have also found the effects to correspond”

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Eve admits having sinned 874-875

112
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“dim erst, dilated spirits, ampler heart”

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Eve describes the effects of the fruit 876

113
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“thou therefore also taste, that equal lot may join us, equal joy, as equal love”

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Eve tells Adam to eat 881-882

114
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“in her cheek distempter flushing glowed”

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Eve blushes having told Adam she ate 887

115
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“Adam, soon as he heard the fatal trespass done by Eve, amazed, astonished stood”

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Adam is shocked having heard what Eve did 888-890

116
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“from the slack hand the garland wreathed for Eve down dropped”

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Adam drops the flower crown he made for Eve out of shock 892-893

117
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“O fairest of creation, last and best of all God’s works”

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Adam thinks to himself about Eve 896-897

118
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“How art thou lost”

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Adam’s still shocked about Eve eating 900

119
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“defaced, deflowered and now to death devote?”

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Adam shocked about Eve eating 901

120
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“and me with thee hath ruined, for with thee certain my resolution is to die”

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Adam is annoyed at Eve 906-907

121
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“How can I live without thee”

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Adam annoyed at Eve 908

122
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“but past who can recall, or done undo?”

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Adam accepts they can’t turn back now 926

123
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“perhaps thou shalt not die”

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Adam tries to rationalise eating the fruit 928

124
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“Nor can I think that God, Creator wise, though threatening, will in earnest so destroy us his prime creatures”

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Adam tries to rationalise eating 938-940

125
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“my own in thee, for what thou art is mine; our flesh cannot be severed, we are one”

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Adam rationalises eating through his love for Eve 957-958

126
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“Adam, from whose dear side I boast me sprung”

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Eve flatters Adam, glad he’s going to eat 965

127
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“to undergo with me one guilt, one crime”

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Eve is glad Adam will eat 971

128
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“Were it I thought death menaced would ensue this my attempt, I would sustain alone”

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Eve is glad Adam will eat 977-978

129
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“Adam, freely taste, and fear of death deliver to the winds”

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Eve tells Adam to eat 988-989

130
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“she embraced him, and for joy tenderly wept”

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Eve is glad Adam will eat 990-991

131
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“he scrupled not to eat against his better knowledge”

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Adam knows he shouldn’t eat 997-998

132
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“not deceived but fondly overcome with female charm”

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Adam was seduced into eating 998-99

133
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“Earth trembled from her entrails”

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Nature reacts to Adam eating 1000

134
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“Sky loured and muttering thunder, some sad drops wept”

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Nature reacts to Adam eating 1002-1003
Pathetic fallacy

135
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“as with new wine intoxicated both”

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The effects of the fruit 1008

136
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“carnal desire inflaming; he on Eve began to cast lascivious eyes”

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Adam looks at Eve lustfully after eating 1013-1014

137
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“in lust they burn”

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Adam and Eve after eating fruit 1015

138
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“much pleasure we have lost, while we abstained from this delightful fruit”

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Adam’s initial reacting to eating fruit 1022-1023

139
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“so inflame my sense with ardour to enjoy thee, fairer now than ever”

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Adam’s lustful after eating 1031-1033

140
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“her hand he seized, and to a shady bank, thick overhead with verdant roof”

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Adam takes Eve to a bank (for sex) 1037-1038

141
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“they took their fill of love and love’s disport took largely”

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They had sex1042-1043

142
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“innocence, that as a veil had shadowed them from knowing ill, was gone”

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Adam and Eve wake up the day after the fall

143
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“naked left to guilty shame he covered”

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Adam and Eve feel naked now so cover up 1057-1058

144
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“Eve, in evil hour thou didst give ear to that false worm”

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Adam begins to blame Eve 1067-1068

145
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“How shall I behold the face henceforth of God or angel”

A

Adam feels guilty the morning after 1080-1081

146
Q

“together sewed to gird their waist, covering if to hid their naked guilt and dreaded shame”

A

Adam and Eve make clothes from leaves to cover up 1112-1114

147
Q

“Would thou hadst hearkened my words and stayed with me”

A

Adam says he wishes Eve hadn’t gone to work alone 1134-1135

148
Q

“shamed, naked, miserable”

A

Adam blaming Eve for the fall 1139

149
Q

“Was I to have never parted from your side?”

A

Eve suggests Adam’s being unreasonable - blaming eachother 1153

150
Q

“Hadst thou been firm and fixed in thy dissent, neither had I transgressed, nor thou with me?”

A

Eve says she wishes Adam had been firmer 1160-1161

151
Q

“ingrateful Eve”

A

Adam’s angry at Eve 1164

152
Q

“Thus they in mutual accusation spent the fruitless hours, but neither self-comdemning, and of their vain contest appeared no end”

A

Adam and Eve continue to be angry with eachother 1187-1189
End of Book 9.

English Lit A Level - Paradise Lost (4 decks)

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