Paradise Lost Quotes Flashcards
How everything was up till now
“No more of talk where God or angel guest/ With Man, as with friend, familiar used to sit indulgent”
-No longer to occur
What does Milton change his tune to
“tragic, foul, distrust, and breach/Disloyal” (foul and distrust are emphasisers)
The feelings of heaven towards man
“distance and distaste”
“Anger and just rebuke, and judgement given”
-Menin means anger and is the first word in Homer’s Iliad, there is a caesura before judgement
More heroic than Homer
“Not less but more heroic than the wrath/
of stern Achilles”
(Once again anger placed at the end)
OR Turnus’s/ Neptune’s/Juno’s rage
what was the “only argument Heroic deemed”
Wars, wars and heroic at the beginning of the lines
“with long and tedious havoc fabled knights in battles feigned”
what is greater than these petty wars of knights
“better fortitude of Patience” and “heroic martyrdom”
Setting the scene
“the sun was sunk”
What has Satan recently done before Gabriel’s threats
“late fled”
AFter his collision with Gabriel Satan is now
“improved in meditated fraud and malice, bent on man’s destruction”
notice the three words in the semantic field
Why, in his evil intentions, is Satan heroic
“maugre what might hap of heavier on himself”
Satan fleeing and returning
“fearless returned.
By night he fled, and at midnight returned
From compassing the Earth”
Satan’s journey
“full of anguish driven/The space of seven continued nights he rode/ With darkness”
- positioning sees the heroic journey turned evil
Satan’s journey
“full of anguish driven/The space of seven continued nights he rode/ With darkness”
- positioning sees the heroic journey turned evil
How did Satan enter Eden
“by stealth”
by a rountain by the TRee of Life “roSe Satan involved in riSing miSt, then Sought” where to lay hid
Where had he searched to lie hid
“over”“beyond”“Downward”“roamed”“searched” with “inspection deep” considered every creature. geographical places.
Why he chose the serpent
“Serve hiS wileS” …. “Serpent SubtleSt beaSt”
Why must a subtle beast be used
in other beasts doubt might beget of “diabolic power” “beyond the sense of brute”
what is his sililoque
“inward grief” “bursting Passions into Plaints thus Poured”
what is his sililoque
“inward grief” “bursting Passions into Plaints thus Poured”
What Satan says about Earth
“seat worthier of gods” than heaven,
Why does he think EArth is better than heaven
built with second thoughts
“Oh Earth, how like to Heaven, if not preferred
For what God, after better, worse would build?”
better and worse juxtaposition
-only one god, an excuse to attack God
Satan’s appreciation of Eden
“With what delight could I have walked thee round”
“round” contrast to current journeying
sympathetic
list of all the various types of terrain
asyndeton: “Now land, now Sea, and shores with forest crowned”
Satan makes it sound as if he’s been wronged
different geographical terrians
“I in none of these find place or refuge”
Satan makes it sound as if he’s been wronged
different geographical terrians
“I in none of these find place or refuge”
Contrast with feelings within and what is about
“…………………………………………the more I see
Pleasures about me, so much more I feel
Torment within me….”
-Pleasures and Torment are both stressed.
-“so much” is an emphasiser.
-“about” in antithesis to “within”
- “see” and “feel” are both senses
Satan reject heaven and earth
“But neither here seek I, no nor in Heaven
To dwell, unless by mastering Heaven’s Supreme;”
his real aim is impossible
-rejects a perfect version
What is his current aim then?
“Nor hope to be myself less miserable
By what I seek, but others to make such
As I”
- “make” is a mockery of gods creation, he can only destroy
- his heroic journey in the first line is completely undermined by the second line
How does he find ease
“only in destroying I find ease”
What will Satan’s glory be
“To me shall be the glory sole”
to mar “in one day” what the Almighty made in “six nights and days”
What will Satan’s glory be
“To me shall be the glory sole”
to mar “in one day” what the Almighty made in “six nights and days”
petty
What does Satan think he’s done well
“freed from servitude inglorious well nigh half th’angelic name”
Why does SAtan think god made man
“to repair his numbers” failing to create other angels (impossible)
or “to spite us more”
-he can only think in negatives, never the big picture.
Satan’s disgust at a lower class being exalted
“Exalted from so base original”
of Earth “Him lord pronounced, and, O indignity!
Subjected to his service angel wings”
Satan’s disgust at entering a beast
“O foul descent! that I who erst contended
with gods to sit the highest, am now constrained
Into beast, and mixed with bestial slime”
“incarnate and imbrute”
-it is a forced dead
- antithesis to what he had wished “the height of deity aspired”
- contrast to Jesus’ willing reincarnation as man
regret perhaps
“Revenge, at first though sweet,bitter ere long back on itself recoils”
The snake description before Satan takes over
“Not yet in horrid shade or dismal den”
“Not nocent yet”
“Fearless unfeared” (traductio and stresses on fear)
-reminders of all things that come after the fall
Satan entering the snake
“in at his mouth the devil entered”
Eden in the morning
flowers “breathed their morning incense” and everything that breaths from EArth’s great altar send up silent prais to the CReator.and his nostrills fill with “grateful smell” (hes not spiteful)
Eve’s approach to work
“the work under our labour grows”
“let us divide our labours”
How does Eve address Adam, what does she want him to do
“advise” or “hear”
Why does she think their work takes so long
“Looks intervene and smiles…casual discourse…and th’hour of supper comes unearned”
Adam praises EVe
“Sole Eve, associate sole, to me beyond
Compare above all living creatures dear”
“Well hast thou motioned, well thy thoughts employed”
what does ADam praise in woman
“nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good”
Adam argument about work
“For not to irksome toil, but to delight
He made us, and delight to Reason joined”
(by wanting to do work they end up having to do work)
why would he consider letting EVe go (on normal circumstances)
“short retirement urges sweet return”
Why does Adam decide he would rather she doesn’t go however
“lest harm befall THEE severed from ME”
Adam is consistently right
- warned that a “malicious foe” “envying our happiness “ “own despairing” wishes to work them “woe and shame By sly assault”
he may look for his “best advantage”
“each to other to other speedy aid might lend at need” -he has no hope that way - his first design would be to “withdraw our fealty from God”
Adam’s little mistake in his speech
the women is safest by her husband “who guards her”
Milton admires Eve
“As one who loves, and some unkindness meets”
Why does EVe say she is upset by Adam’s words
“my firmness therefore doubt to God or thee… I expected not to hear” that she maay be tempted
Adam’s correct assumption of what ADam was saying
that he is afraid that “my firm faith and love can by his fraud be shaken or seduced”
Adam’s correct assumption of what ADam was saying
that he is afraid that “my firm faith and love can by his fraud be shaken or seduced”
Adam mitigates his insult
“th’attempt itself…asperses the tempted with dishonour foul” (Cicero argued that it was bad to even be tempted)(ADam is tempting her more)
Adam’s male arrogance
“The enemy, though bold, will hardly dare, Or daring, first on me th’assualt shall light”
(this misjudgment of Satan’s pride begins to corrupt ADam’s previous logic
Adam’s argument of virility
“in thy sight More wise, more watchful, stronger”
“shame, thou looking on, shame to be overcome or over-reached”
Eve’s good argumen about freedom
“How are we happy, still in fear of harm?”
(but how does separating solve this)
fear of harm was considered an evil
Eve’s judgement of SAtan
his “foul esteem” will turn “foul on himself” by overcoming his tempting “double honour fain” and “favour from Heaven” (if she has succeeded she would have received this)
Eve’s belief that love must be tested
“what is faith, love, virtue unassayed”
- these are things that matter to Adam. But a disastruous decision to risk thm to prove them.
- Pride in self belief. THey don’t need to be proved in such a way
- this argument is undermined, Satan is there for those things to be trialed she should have remembered this later on
Eve’s final argument, powerful
“let us not then suspect our happy state left so imperfect by the maker wise,”
“Eden were no Eden thus exposed”
(but she knows there is a danger, she hasnt thought that it may exactly be a trial and that it wont be easy, hasnt htought that she may loose Eden)
Eve’s final argument, powerful
“let us not then suspect our happy state left so imperfect by the maker wise,”
“Eden were no Eden thus exposed”
(but she knows there is a danger, she hasnt thought that it may exactly be a trial and that it wont be easy, hasnt htought that she may loose Eden)
