Paradise Lost: Punishment Flashcards

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‘Upon thy _______ groveling thou shalt go and _____ shalt eat all the ______ of thy life’

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‘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
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‘Saw ________ fall like ____________ down from Heav’n’

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‘Saw Satan fall like lightning down from Heav’n’

  • Vivid description of Satan’s physical and moral fall from heaven
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‘Thy _________ I will greatly multiply by thy ____________’

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‘Thy sorrow I will greatly multiply by thy conception’

  • God punishing Eve with the pain/difficulty of childbirth
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‘To thine _____________ will thine shall _______’

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‘To thine husbands will thine shall submit’

  • God punishing Eve by rendering her as inferior to Adam
  • Placing Eve in a submissive/passive position
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‘_________ is the ground for thy _____’

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‘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
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‘A dismal ___________ hiss, the sound of ________ scorn’

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‘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
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‘A ___________ serpent on his ______ prone’

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‘A monstrous serpent on his belly prone’

  • Contrapasso=Satan punished in the same way he has sinned
  • Satan permanently transformed into a serpent
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‘Instead of ______ chewed bitter ______’

‘Plagued and worn with ________ long and __________ hiss’

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‘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
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‘His ______ is fair’

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‘His doom is fair’

  • Adam respectful/understanding of God’s punishment
  • Awareness of the extent of his crime
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‘______ words’

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‘Soft words’

  • Following punishment, Eve’s voice is silenced/erased
  • Embodies her punishment to be passive/submissive
  • Becomes a secondary voice to Adam
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‘___________ thou art, __________ remain!’

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‘Childless thou art, childless remain!’

  • Eve’s suggestion to not have children as a whole
  • Attempting to avoid punishment/the passing down of sin
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‘Lest ______ so snatched will not ________ us from the pain we are by ________ to pay’

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‘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
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‘Soon ______________ with joy’

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‘Soon recompensed with joy’ (pains of childbirth)

  • Adam attempting to find the positives/opportunities in their punishment
  • Childbirth brings joy as well as pain
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‘__________ had been worse. My _______ will sustain me’

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‘Idleness had been worse. My labour will sustain me’

  • Adams punishment of hard labour will prevent boredom/idleness
  • Upsides of God’s punishment
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