Paradise Lost- John Milton Flashcards

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Book 9 starts in

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Media res- middle of the action

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Eves aim

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The rather desirous to make a trail of her strength

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Satan is bent on

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Mans destruction

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Dayan went round the world 3 times in

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7 consecutive nights- subversion of create

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Satan thinks about earth

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More justly seat worthier of gods, as built on second thoughts

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Satin wants female. Interaction

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The most I see pleasure around me, so much more I feel torment within me

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Why is satan like lodovico

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Because both bang on about their banishment

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Satan say in theme of revenge

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But what will not ambition and revenge descend to?

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Natural imagery of Ivey, rose, and myrtle

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Means evergreen, love, and faithfulness subversion what is eve surrounded by when pursuaded by satan

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Eves argument about super

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That super comes unearnt

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Unlinked hands quote from Milton

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Thus saying from her husbands hand her hand soft withdrew

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Fragrance imagery

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Vieleding cloud of fragrance- sensory imagery to describe eve olfactory image

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Why did Milton he other senses

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As he was blind

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What means love bring out the worst in each other

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Floe a deux

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Satan felt .. When looking at eve

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Stupidly good

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Satan an intellect

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Whose higher intellect more I shun- about eve

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Terror means awe

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There is terror in love and beauty

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Description of satan

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Circular base of rising folds, his head crest aloft and his carbuncle eyes

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Line 510

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Acrostic spelling satin showing he is core of the poem

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Satan shows a … Expression

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Gentle dumb expression- link to flam being dumb for status

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Flattery from satan

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Goddess among gods, adored

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How satan sets up idea link to dream

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I chanced a goodly tree for distant to behold loaded fruit

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Shouldn’t worship anyone but god

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Worship thee of right desired declared sovereign of creatures

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Hell imagery

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Kindled through ignition to a flame

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What tree described as

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The tree of prohibition the root of all our woe

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Reason in our…

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Law

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Reaching higher status satan has. Link to flam

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I have attained than fate meant me’ by reaching higher than my lot

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Eve claims forbidding…

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Forbidding condemns me more

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Syntactic parrellelation

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The earth felt the wound

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Satan refers to god and angels

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The great forbidder, angels are spies

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Eves reason for telling Adam

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Fear of being ‘wedded to another eve’

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Choicest flowers a garland to adorn her tresses

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Subversion as hero usually returns with flowers

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What the symbol of the fall

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His slack hand the garland wreath for eve

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Subversion of marriage ceremony

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In bliss or woe

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Adam claims he will eat fruit because

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To loose thee to lose myself

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Eve thinks only positive to come out of this

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This happy trial of my love, which else so eminently never been known

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Line 999 flip is 666 when Adam eats fruit …

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Fondly overcome with female charm- which is the real fall

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Sin .. Lust talk

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; in lust they burn

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Now let’s play

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Contagious fire, seized

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Satan now degraded to

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A false worm

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What does satan have that is counterfeit

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Counterfeit mans voice

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Adam replied

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Incensed- in fire

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Women are weak

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She first his weak indulgence accuse

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William Blake thought

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Milton was the devils party without knowing it

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William Blake thought about the creature created

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The most disturbing and powerful rendition of the archetypal villain

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William Blake about literature

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Every work of literature portables somewhat of the age that produced it

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William Blake said we could see satan in ourselves

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Satan as a hero only if we deny is social and political status, cut him out of context, view him as part of ourselves- our id

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William Blake emotions supposed to create

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Satan wished to produce wonder and anger

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Percy s Shelley

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Nothing can exceed the energy and magnificence of the character satan, it’s a mistake to say personification of evil

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Francis blessing ton

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We must read paradise lost in the way that Milton read the bible, symbolically

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Eves language now became sexual

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Opener, dilated, growing, tasting

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Adam was…

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Speechless when he found out which is ironic