Paradise Lost Quotes

Question 1

God cannot hurt ye and be just…

Answer 1

not just, not god

Question 2

Book 4 quote that describes Satan whispering to Eve, prerequisite to fall in Book 9

Answer 2

“him there found, squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve”

Question 3

Quote from Book 9 which emphasises the importance of Milton’s epic (hint - Cicero)

Answer 3

“some orators renowned in Athens or free Rome”

Question 4

Book 9 quote showing Eves female weakness to Satan’s courtly rhetoric

Answer 4

“into her heart too easy entrance won”

Question 5

Quotes for sexualisation of the fruit in Book 9

Answer 5

“gorged” “she plucked she ate” “groaned”

Question 6

Quote from book 10 which demonstrates Milton’s suspicion of the monarchy (could link to corrupt court in DOM)

Answer 6

“false glitter”

Question 7

Quote from book 1 that could support argument that Milton was a feminist

Answer 7

“he it was whose guile stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived the mother of man kind”

Question 8

Quote from Book 9 which is almost soliloquy like - demonstrates Satan’s innermost fears.

Answer 8

“now improved in mediated fraud and malice, is bent on man’s destruction”

Question 9

Quote from Book 9 to show Satan as a malcontent (link to Bosola)

Answer 9

“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”

Question 10

Quote from Book 9 that shows Satan as an Antagonist - could form parallels with Iago in Othello

Answer 10

“Only in destroying I find ease to my relentless thoughts”

Question 11

Quote from Book 9 which demonstrates Satan’s Metamorphosis

Answer 11

“standing abstracted from his own evil”

Question 12

Quote from Book 9 encompassing femininity and female power

Answer 12

“angelic but more soft and feminine her grateful innocence, her every air of gesture overawed his malice”

Question 13

Book 9 Oxymoronic quote that shows the impact of Eve’s beauty on Satan

Answer 13

“stupidly good”

Question 14

Fantasie that they feel divinitie within them

Answer 14

breeding wings

Question 15

Ye shall be as gods

Answer 15

knowing both good and evil

Question 16

began to rise high passions, anger, hate,

Answer 16

mistrust, suspicion, discord

Question 17

made intricate

Answer 17

seem straight

Question 18

forbids us

Answer 18

to be wise

Question 19

His final sentence chose fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud in whom

Answer 19

to enter his dark suggestions hide from sharpest sight

Question 20

and me with thee hath ruined for with thee certain my resolution is

Answer 20

to die

Question 21

also taste then

Answer 21

equal lot may join us

Question 22

naked thus of honor void, of

Answer 22

innocence, of faith, of puritie

Question 23

o much decieved, much failing,

Answer 23

hapless eve

Question 24

Language of man pronounced by tongue of brute…

Answer 24

…..I thought denied to beasts….created mute to all articulate sounds

Question 25

He ended, end his words replete with guile

Answer 25

into her heart too easy entrance won

Question 26

Greedily she engorged without restraint and knew not eating death

Answer 26

satiate at length and heightened as with wine

Question 27

Carnal desire inflaming, he on Eve began to cast a lascivious eyes

Answer 27

she him as wantonly repaid: in lust they burn

Question 28

Look on me! me who have touched and tasted yet both live

Answer 28

and live more perfect have attained than fate meant me, by venturing higher than my lot

Question 29

but fondly

Answer 29

overcome with female charm

Question 30

our reason is

Answer 30

our law

Question 31

Daughter of God and man, immortal Eve, for such though art

Answer 31

from sin and blame entire

Question 32

our great

Answer 32

forbidder

Question 33

so good, so fit, so acceptable, so divine

Answer 33

that from her hand i could suspect no ill

Question 34

was she thy god? that her thou didst obey

Answer 34

before his voice?

Question 35

The serpent me beguiled

Answer 35

and I did eat

Question 36

vehement

Answer 36

despair

Question 37

was i never to have parted from thy side? …..

Answer 37

….a liveless rib

Question 38

defaced, deflowered, and now

Answer 38

to death devote

Question 39

and render me more equal, and perhaps not a thing undesireable,

Answer 39

sometime superior, for when inferior, who is free?

Question 40

Thats the greatest torture souls feel in hell:

Answer 40

in hell they must live and cannot die

Question 41

God - No Decree of mine
Concurring to necessitate his Fall,
Or touch with lightest moment of impulse

Answer 41

His free Will, to her own inclining left
In even scale

Question 42

For now all were transformed alike

Answer 42

to serpents all, as acessories to his bold riot