Paradise Lost: Punishment Flashcards
‘Upon thy _______ groveling thou shalt go and _____ shalt eat all the ______ of thy life’
‘Upon thy belly groveling thou shalt go and dust shalt eat all the days of thy life’
- Satan’s punishment to an inferior/lower being
‘Saw ________ fall like ____________ down from Heav’n’
‘Saw Satan fall like lightning down from Heav’n’
- Vivid description of Satan’s physical and moral fall from heaven
‘Thy _________ I will greatly multiply by thy ____________’
‘Thy sorrow I will greatly multiply by thy conception’
- God punishing Eve with the pain/difficulty of childbirth
‘To thine _____________ will thine shall _______’
‘To thine husbands will thine shall submit’
- God punishing Eve by rendering her as inferior to Adam
- Placing Eve in a submissive/passive position
‘_________ is the ground for thy _____’
‘Cursed is the ground for thy sake’
- God cursing the ground of the earth so it can only produce food for man with hard work/labour
‘A dismal ___________ hiss, the sound of ________ scorn’
‘A dismal universal hiss, the sound of public scorn’
- Satan recounts his experience of his transgression against God, expecting applause
- However, hears a ‘hiss’ as God punishes the rebel angels by turning them into snakes
- ‘hiss’=disappointment, sibilance
‘A ___________ serpent on his ______ prone’
‘A monstrous serpent on his belly prone’
- Contrapasso=Satan punished in the same way he has sinned
- Satan permanently transformed into a serpent
‘Instead of ______ chewed bitter ______’
‘Plagued and worn with ________ long and __________ hiss’
‘Instead of fruit chewed bitter ashes’
‘Plagued and worn with famine long and ceaseless hiss’
- Fruit turns into bitter ash in their mouths
- Rebels defeated by the power of God
- Emphasises the illusion of the fruit
‘His ______ is fair’
‘His doom is fair’
- Adam respectful/understanding of God’s punishment
- Awareness of the extent of his crime
‘______ words’
‘Soft words’
- Following punishment, Eve’s voice is silenced/erased
- Embodies her punishment to be passive/submissive
- Becomes a secondary voice to Adam
‘___________ thou art, __________ remain!’
‘Childless thou art, childless remain!’
- Eve’s suggestion to not have children as a whole
- Attempting to avoid punishment/the passing down of sin
‘Lest ______ so snatched will not ________ us from the pain we are by ________ to pay’
‘Lest death so snatched will not exempt us from the pain we are by doom to pay’
- Contemplation of suicide
- Death might not be the end of their punishment/greater pain beyond death
- God’s punishment cannot be evaded
‘Soon ______________ with joy’
‘Soon recompensed with joy’ (pains of childbirth)
- Adam attempting to find the positives/opportunities in their punishment
- Childbirth brings joy as well as pain
‘__________ had been worse. My _______ will sustain me’
‘Idleness had been worse. My labour will sustain me’
- Adams punishment of hard labour will prevent boredom/idleness
- Upsides of God’s punishment
