Paradise lost quotations Flashcards
Satan is like Jesus, wanting to sacrifice himself for man, but Satan wants to sacrifice and man
‘Bent on mans destruction, maugre what might hap/ of heavier on himself’
Satan finds peace in destroying things
‘only in destroying I find ease/ to my relentless thoughts.
The beginning of the fall
‘Let us divide our labours’
Adam has a lot of love for Eve, could be bad if he loves her more than God
‘Sole Eve, associate sole, to me beyond / Compare above all living creatures dear’
Domestic activities has been the female role so far but Adam has given up his natural masculine authority as gender roles are being reversed. Adam is uxorious as he has too much love for his wife, which might become a problem later if he only follows his wife and not God.
‘Domestic Adam’
Like epic heroes, wants to gain honour, Eve is becoming more manly. Also, epics are pagan which is bad
‘Who rather double honour gain / From his surmise proved false’
Traditional gender roles reversed, Adam doesn’t want to restrict her, but he doesn’t want to let her go either.
‘thy stay, not free, absents thee more’
Blasphemous, shows Eve being tempted
‘Goddess among Gods’
the point of the fall
‘her rash hand in evil hour / Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate’
Eve’s beauty exercises enormous power. Her looks make Satan-
‘Stupidly good’
Earth for years to come is hurt
‘Earth felt the wound’
Eve’s relentless eating
‘Greedily she engorged without restraint’
Eve describes God as
‘Our great forbidder’
Adam’s uxoriousness shown again
‘To lose thee were to lose myself’
shows their consciousness of the fact they are naked
‘Cover me’
Shows their change to impurity
‘In lust they burn’
Satan boasts about his triumph
‘Hell could no longer hold us in her bounds’
Eve is honest to God unlike Adam
‘The serpent beguiled and I did eat’
Adam is taunted by guilt and fear
‘O conscience! Into what abyss of fears and horrors has thou driven me!’
Death enters the world but does not act immediately
‘Death his dark shook, but delayed to strike.’
God’s judgment on Eve, introducing pain in child birth
‘Thy sorrow I will greatly multiply’
A reminder of morality after the fall
‘Dust I am, and shall to dust return’
God tells Adam that labour will now be painful
‘In sorrow thou shalt eat’
Eve pleads with Adam not to blame her entirely
‘On me exercise not thy hatred’
Adam’s and Eve’s relationship is now tainted by shame and blame
‘Love was not in their looks’
