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A-Level English Literature Revision > Paradise Lost Quotes > Flashcards

Paradise Lost Quotes Flashcards

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Satan: “So spake …

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“So spake the enemy of mankind”

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Satan’s arrogance: “better …

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“better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven”

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Satan Persuasion: “He spake …

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“He spake: and to confirm his words, out-flew / Millions of flaming swords”

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Satan: “He …

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“Hellish”

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Satan’s Manipulation: “lure …

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“lure her eye”

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Satan: “ple …

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“pleasing […] shape”

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Satan: “med …

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“meditated guile” + “dark intent”

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Eve: “perv …

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“perverted Eve”

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Eve defending Satan: “hadst thou been …

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“hadst thou been there, / Or here th’attempt, thou couldst not have discerned / Fraud in the serpent”

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Eve: “des …

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“despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss”

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Eve: “im …

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“immortal Eve”

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Eve: “sov …

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“sovereign mistress” + “Queen

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Eve: “she shall …

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“she shall be called women, because she was taken out of man”

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Adam: “pat ….

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“patriarch of mankind”

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Adam’s Uxoriousness: “How …

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“How can I live without thee?”

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Adam: “amazed …

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“amazed, / Astonied stood and blank”

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Adam: “exempt …

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“exempt from wound” + “heroic built”

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Adam: “high …

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“higher intellectual”

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Adam to Eve: “Sole …

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“Sole Eve, associate sole”

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Eve to Adam: “How little …

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“How little weight my word with thee can find”

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Eve to Adam: “Offspring …

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“Offspring of Heaven and Earth, and all Earth’s lord”

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Adam + Eve: “One …

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“One flesh, one heart, one soul”

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Adam + Eve: “unfeigned …

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“unfeigned / Union of mind”

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Adam + Eve: “inferior …

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“inferior in the mind / And inward faculties”

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Adam + Eve: “yielding …

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“yielding with coy submission”

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Forbidden Tree: “O sov …

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“O sov’reign, virtuous, precious of all trees”

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Forbidden Tree: “But of this …

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“But of this tree we may not taste nor touch”

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Temptation: “into her …

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“into her heart too cosy entrance won”

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Temptation + Sin: “Of man’s first …

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“Of man’s first disobedience, and the fruit / Of that forbidden tree whose moral taste / brought death into the world, and all our woe”

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Temptation + Sin: “The serpent …

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“the serpent beguiled me and I did eat”

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Blame: “Yet willingly …

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“Yet willingly chose rather death with thee”

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Blame/Anger: “high passions …

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“high passions, anger, hate, / mistrust, suspicion, discord, and shook sore”

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Blame: “in mutual …

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“in mutual accusations spent / the fruitless hours”

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Guilt (lack of): “Forbids …

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“Forbids us good, forbids us to be wise?”

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Corruption: “notes …

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“notes to tragic; foul distrust, and breach / Disloyal”

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Disobedience: “wilfully …

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“wilfully chosen” to disobey God

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Questioning God: “How are …

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

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Loss of morals: “together …

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“together went / Into the thickest woods”

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Loss of purity: “Both …

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“Both good and evil, good lost, and evil got”

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Self-Pity: “Is this the …

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“Is this the Love, is this the recompense / Of mine to thee, ingrateful Eve”

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Eve + Adam: “our …

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“our reason is our law”

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Redemption: “What better …

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“What better can we do, than to place / Repairing where he judg’d to”

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Satan: “all good …

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“all good to me is bane”

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Satan’s selfishness/arrogance: Expects …

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Expects “Hallelujah[s]” from followers when returned

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Regret: “Should …

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“Should God create another Eve”

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Revenge: “Revenge, at first …

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“Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils”

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Imperfection: “Let none admire …

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“Let none admire the riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane”

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Lack of hope/evilness: “So farewell …

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“So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good”

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Forbidden: “Knowledge …

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“Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know”

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Despair: “Now conscience …

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“Now conscience wakes despair. That slumber’d, wakes the bitter memory of what he was, what is, and what must be worse”

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