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Narrator

Serpent sly

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“The serpent, subtlest beat of all the field”

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Satan

Earth heaven

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“O earth, how like to heav’n”

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Satan

Destroying

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“For only in destroying I find ease,
to my relentless thoughts; and find him destroyed”

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Satan

Night

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“I in one night freed… half Th’ angelic name”

lying, only had 1/3 on his side

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Satan

Adam

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“This new favourite of heaven”
“this man of clay”

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Eve

Labours

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“Let us divide our labours”

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Adam

Sole

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“Sole Eve, associate sole”

only eve

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Adam

Household

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“for nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, and good works in her husband to promote”

miltons views sneeking on in there <3

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Adam

Satan

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“malicious foe”
“who could seduce angles”

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Eve

Death

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“as we are not capiable of death”

naive

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Eve

Free will

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“and Eden is no Eden thus exposed”

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Eve

Test and faithfullness

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“And what is love, virture unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?”

if they are not tested, are they truly faithful?

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Adam

Temptation

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“Seek not temptation then… trail will come unsought”

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Narrator

Eves femininity

heav’nly…

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“her Heav’nly form Angelic, but more soft, and feminine, her graceful innocence”

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Satan good

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“One abstarcted stood From his own evil, and for time remained Stupidly good”

shes so beautiful he forgets hes evil

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Narrator

Satan enemy

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“so spake the Enemy of mankind”

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Satan stupid

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“Stupidly good”

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Satan Husband

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“Her Husband… whose higher intellectual more I shun”

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Satan Godess

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“A Goddess among gods”

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Adam trial

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“trail will come unsought”

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Eve friendly

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“Friendly to man, far from deceit or guile”

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Eve greedy

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“Greedily she engorged without restraint And she knew not eating death”

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Eve deflowered

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“Defaced, deflow’red, and now to death devote”

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Adam charm

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“not deceived, But fondly overcome with female charm”

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Adam evil

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“O Eve, in evil hour”

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Satan first in Paradise

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  • the space of seven continued nights he rode with darkness (line 64)
  • thrice the equinoctial line He circled, four times crossed the car of night…by stealth Found unsuspected way p77
  • in one day to have marred what he Almighty styled, six nights and days
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Satan’s ability to shapeshift

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  • Satan involved in rising mist
  • the serpent subtlest beast (implies wit, slippery, ominous, unsettling
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Satan on why he destroys

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  • For only in destroying, I find ease for my relentless thoughts
  • Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils
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Satan on why he thinks God created mankind

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  • to spite us more
  • to repair his numbers thus impaired
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Satan on becoming serpent

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‘O foul descent! that I, who erst contended with gods to sit the highest, am now constrained into a beast, and mixed with bestial slime’ (he feels imbruted (made into a brute) and fallen)

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Satan’s emotions before entering Paradise

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‘Fearless unfeared he slept’ (antithesis, prelapsarian harmony)

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Eve to Adam first argument

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  • till more hands aid us, the work under our labour grows….let us divide our labours
  • what wonder if so near Looks intervene and smiles…which intermits Our day’s work brought to little..and the hour of supper comes unearned (too much flirting and distraction to work, which Milton, as Protestant, thought work should be done for a living)
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Adam Misogyny to Eve in argument

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  • nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good’
  • The wife…safest and seemliest by her husband stays (could be Milton’s own words and is dramatic irony, as we know what will happen)
34
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Adam saying that God has not given much work

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not so strictly hath our Lord imposed Labour

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Adam on why their loving smiles are fine p67

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for smiles from reason flow, to brute denied (smiles show they are not like other animals)

36
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Adam on why love helps them reason p67

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but to delight He made us, and delight to reason joined (love helps reason, helps them learn and grow)

37
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Adam on how Eve should not go out because of Satan p67

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other doubt possesses me, lest harm befall thee…for thou know’st
What hath been warned us, what malicious foe
Envying out happiness…
seeks to work us woe and shame (violent language is unusual for Adam, implies extremity of Satan’s threat)

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Adam on Satan’s motive p68

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withdraw our fealty (divine trust) from God, or to disturb Conjugal love

39
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Eve is angry that Adam should doubt her loyalty p68

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But that thou shouldst my firmness therefore doubt
To God or thee, because we have a foe
May tempt it, I expected not to hear.

40
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Eve on how he mistook her to be seduced by Satan in arguments p69

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Thy equal fear that my firm faith and love
Can by his fraud be shaken or seduced
….misthought of her to thee so dear? (implied criticism that she would be swayed by Satan and she is trying to make him feel guilty, but it is a weak argument, as she does give into temptation) (f sound implies anger)

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Adam in debate saying that it would dishonour her to converse with Satan p69

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For he who tempts…asperses the tempted with dishonour foul

42
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Eve on how their love should not be confined due to Satan p71

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What is faith, love, virtue unassayed
Alone, without exterior help unsustained?

43
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Adam on why God’s way is the best argument p71

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best are all things as the will
Of God ordained them

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Adam on how free will from God should not be exploited p71

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free will from God should not be exploited p71
But God left free the will…..and misinform the will To do what God expressly hath forbid.

45
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Adam on temptation to Eve p71

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Seek not temptation

46
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Milton reminds us of how Adam is the head p72

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so spake the patriarch of mankind

47
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Epithets to describe Eve when she leaves p74

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much deceived, much failing, hapless Eve

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Satan’s thoughts of Eve’s appearance when he first sees her and ogles her p76

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  • graceful innocence
    -rapine sweet (he is mentally and psychologically raped by her beauty)
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Satan when he sees Eve and his evil is almost taken away p76

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“That space the evil one abstracted stood / From his own evil, and for the time remained / Stupidly good

50
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Eve eats the apple p90

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her rash hand in evil hour…..she plucked, she ate:
Earth felt the wound

51
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Eve tells Adam what she did

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in her cheek distemper flushing glowed

imbalance of the four humours, juxtaposes with Adam’s reaction

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Adam and Eve reaction after Eve first tells him p100-101

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mutual guilt
their mind how darkened….innocence…was gone ( innocence of indulgence, innocence of using sex other than for love)
strucken mute

53
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How Adam and Eve see each other after Fall p103

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anger, hate / Mistrust, suspicion, discord (start to hate each other with new feelings never felt before (asyndeton)

54
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Adam to Eve if only you had listened to me p104

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Wouldst thou hadst hearkened to my words, and stayed with me….we had then remained still happy

55
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Eve saying Adam should have stopped her p105

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Why didst not thou the head / Command me absolutely not go

56
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Misogyny of Adam at end of Book IX

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Thus it shall befall / Him who to worth in women overtrusting / Lets her will rule; restraint she will not broke (ends in profound sexism, women will make things go wrong and blame men, perhaps Milton’s thinking of women, as he envisions what will happen, by ending with Adam it gives him the moral agency over Eve)

57
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Jesus blaming Adam’s uxoriousness p112

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Was she thy God…….Thou didst resign thy manhood, and the place Wherein God set thee above her….whose perfection far excelled / Hers

58
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Satan punishment p113 from God

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Upon thy belly grovelliing ….
Her seed shall bruise thy head, thou bruise his heel

  • Satan and snakes are doomed to crawl on bellies
59
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Eve’s and women’s punishment p114

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Thy sorrow I will greatly multiply
By thy conception; children thou shalt bring
In sorrow forth, and to thy husband’s will
Thine shall submit, he over thee will rule.

  • women will have pain in childbirth and submit to husbands
  • basis of the patriarchy, goes back to genesis and other male-dominated societies
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Adam’s punishment p114

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Cursed is the ground …Thorns and thistles it shall bring thee forth….in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground,….for dust thou art, and shalt to dust return

  • he will have to work harder to harvest
    -reminded that he is mortal now
61
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All Eve says to Jesus p113

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the serpent me beguiled and I did eat.

  • significant that this is all she says, whilst Adam blames Eve and makes whole speech
62
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Satan expects applause p127

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-expecting their universal shout and high applause..when contrary he hears / On all sides, from innumerable tongues / A dismal universal hiss, the sound / Of public scorn (auditory imagery, amd enjambment emphasises the sudden stillness

63
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Demons’ punishment p128

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  • all transformed / Alike, to serpents
  • their lost shape…they resumed,/ Yearly enjoined, some say, to undergo / This annual humbling certain numbered ways (perhaps God does not give the demons as much punishment, as they already have punished themselves, reflecting his love and authority, so one a year they will have to be serpents)
64
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Adam feeling sad after Satan, Sin Death scene

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-O miserable of happy! (juxtaposition)….become Accursed of blessed

65
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Adam blaming God for making him p137

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Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay / To mould me man (blasphemy, no trust that God would look after him, despair, spoiled, ungrateful, asking why he was made)

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