Paradise Lost Quotes Flashcards
God cannot hurt ye and be just…
not just, not god
Book 4 quote that describes Satan whispering to Eve, prerequisite to fall in Book 9
“him there found, squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve”
Quote from Book 9 which emphasises the importance of Milton’s epic (hint - Cicero)
“some orators renowned in Athens or free Rome”
Book 9 quote showing Eves female weakness to Satan’s courtly rhetoric
“into her heart too easy entrance won”
Quotes for sexualisation of the fruit in Book 9
“gorged” “she plucked she ate” “groaned”
Quote from book 10 which demonstrates Milton’s suspicion of the monarchy (could link to corrupt court in DOM)
“false glitter”
Quote from book 1 that could support argument that Milton was a feminist
“he it was whose guile stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived the mother of man kind”
Quote from Book 9 which is almost soliloquy like - demonstrates Satan’s innermost fears.
“now improved in mediated fraud and malice, is bent on man’s destruction”
Quote from Book 9 to show Satan as a malcontent (link to Bosola)
“If I could joy in aught sweet interchain of hill and valley, rivers, woods and plain, no land a sea and shores with forest crown”
Quote from Book 9 that shows Satan as an Antagonist - could form parallels with Iago in Othello
“Only in destroying I find ease to my relentless thoughts”
Quote from Book 9 which demonstrates Satan’s Metamorphosis
“standing abstracted from his own evil”
Quote from Book 9 encompassing femininity and female power
“angelic but more soft and feminine her grateful innocence, her every air of gesture overawed his malice”
Book 9 Oxymoronic quote that shows the impact of Eve’s beauty on Satan
“stupidly good”
Fantasie that they feel divinitie within them
breeding wings
Ye shall be as gods
knowing both good and evil
began to rise high passions, anger, hate,
mistrust, suspicion, discord
made intricate
seem straight
forbids us
to be wise
His final sentence chose fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud in whom
to enter his dark suggestions hide from sharpest sight
and me with thee hath ruined for with thee certain my resolution is
to die
also taste then
equal lot may join us
naked thus of honor void, of
innocence, of faith, of puritie
o much decieved, much failing,
hapless eve
Language of man pronounced by tongue of brute…
…..I thought denied to beasts….created mute to all articulate sounds
He ended, end his words replete with guile
into her heart too easy entrance won
Greedily she engorged without restraint and knew not eating death
satiate at length and heightened as with wine
Carnal desire inflaming, he on Eve began to cast a lascivious eyes
she him as wantonly repaid: in lust they burn
Look on me! me who have touched and tasted yet both live
and live more perfect have attained than fate meant me, by venturing higher than my lot
but fondly
overcome with female charm
our reason is
our law
Daughter of God and man, immortal Eve, for such though art
from sin and blame entire
our great
forbidder
so good, so fit, so acceptable, so divine
that from her hand i could suspect no ill
was she thy god? that her thou didst obey
before his voice?
The serpent me beguiled
and I did eat
vehement
despair
was i never to have parted from thy side? …..
….a liveless rib
defaced, deflowered, and now
to death devote
and render me more equal, and perhaps not a thing undesireable,
sometime superior, for when inferior, who is free?
Thats the greatest torture souls feel in hell:
in hell they must live and cannot die
God - No Decree of mine
Concurring to necessitate his Fall,
Or touch with lightest moment of impulse
His free Will, to her own inclining left
In even scale
For now all were transformed alike
to serpents all, as acessories to his bold riot
