Paradise Lost Quotes Flashcards
How is Satan described as in book 1?
2 quotes
“The infernal serpent”
“He it was whose guile stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived the mother of man kind”
How does Milton’s style change as he ‘turns these notes to tragic”
Becomes more theatrical, soliloquy like speeches
How is Satan shown as a malcontent (like Bosola)
Also links to Shakespeare’s Iago in othello
“Only in destroying I find ease to my relentless thoughts”
How does Satan describe Eden in Book 9?
“If I could joy in aught sweet inter chain of hill and valley, rivers woods and plain, no land a sea and shores with forest crown”
What quote expresses Satan’s metamorphosis/ forming of his mythical character?
“Stands abstracted from his own evil”
What does Gabriel see of Satan in book 4?
“Him there swat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve”
How does Satan’s use of courtly rhetoric link with Webster’s description of Malfi’s court?
Sovereign Mistress, Celestial Goddess both sycophantic
Antonio in 1.1 says that the court is full of “flattering sycophants”
How is eve explicitly blamed for the fall in the seduction scene?
Satan’s words “into her heart too easy entrance won”
How does the eating of the fruit link with DOM?
The fruit is sexualised in both
“Gorged without restraint”
“She plucked she ate”
How is Satan’s complexity expressed in Milton’s description of him
“A surging maze”
Hierarchy
By venturing higher than my lot
By considering all things in heaven on earth or middle
Why is it significant that Eve walks through Myrtle to reach the tree?
In Greek mythology myrtle symbolises marital fidelity, and chastity
An example of syllogism
“Your fear itself of death removes the fear”
What affect does Eves beauty have on Satan?
Overawes his malice…. and makes him…..stupidly good
What quotation from book 10 demonstrates Milton’s hatred of the church and monarchy
False glitter
