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Paradise Lost - Satan Flashcards

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Who first seduced them…

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To that could revolt? / the infernal Serpent; he it was whose guile, stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived / the mother of mankind

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Mutual league […]

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United thoughts and counsels, equal hope […] in equal ruin

Confused sentence structure; tricking the reader
Exordium

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The pilot of some small…

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Night-foundered skiff / […] with fixèd anchor in his scaly rind

Isaiah 21: the Leviathan is the “enemy of the Lord” and his “heads” were crushed, so Satan will lose again (Leviathan, Psalm 74)

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Millions of spirits…

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For his fault amerced / of Heaven, and from eternal splendour flung / for his revolt - yet faithful how they stood, / their glory withered

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But under brows/

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Of dauntless courage, and considerate pride / waiting revenge

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Cruel his eye,

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But cast / signs of remorse and passion, to behold / the fellows of his crime, the followers rather

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He, above the rest […]

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Stood like a tower

Proverb 18,10: the name of the Lord is a fortified tower

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Through experience of this great event,/

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In arms not worse, in foresight much advanced, / we may with more successful hope resolve / to wage by for or guile eternal war

Confutatio; Satan’s speech starts with an “if”; undermines his rally cry
Force or guile - illusion of choice

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Chained on…

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The burning lake […] but that the will / and high permission of all-ruling Heaven

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The mind is its own place, …

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And in itself / can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven

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His ponderous shield, /

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Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, / behind him cast. The broad circumference / hung on on his shoulders like the moon

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I may assert …

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Eternal Providence, / and justify the ways of God to men

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Our labour must be…

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To pervert that end, / and out of good still to find means of evil

Lack of confirmation and confutatio at this point in Satan’s speech; Satan doesn’t accept another argument after B had spoken. Satan says he will resist even God’s forgiveness

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Round he throws

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His baleful eyes, / that witnessed huge affliction and dismay

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One great furnace flamed;

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Yet from those flames/no light but rather darkness visible

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Though in pain,/

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Vaunting aloud, but racked with deep despair

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But in his face/

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Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care/sat on his faded cheek

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His spear -

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To equal which the tallest / pine hewn on the Norwegian hill, to be the mast/ of some great Admiral, were but a wand

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He called so loud…

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That all the hollow deep/of Hell resounded

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Him the Almighty Power /

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Hurled headlong flaming […] with hideous ruin and combustion, down/ to bottomless perdition

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Our grand foe […]

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Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heaven

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The thunder,/

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Winged with red lightning and impetuous rage,/perhaps hath spent his shafts

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Oh how fallen!

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How changed/from him!

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Contend […]

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His utmost power with adverse power opposed/ in dubious battle on the plains of Heaven,/ and shook his throne

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The unconquerable will […]

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And courage never to submit or yield

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Princes,…

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Potentates, warriors […] awake, arise, or be forever fallen!

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Downcast and damp;

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Yet […] some glimpse of joy to have found their Chief

27
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Gently raised/

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Their fainting courage, and dispelled their fears

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Mixed with…

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Obdurate pride and steadfast hate

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Head uplift…

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Above the wave […] prone on the flood […] lay floating

30
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Better to reign…

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In Hell than serve in Heaven

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Our faithful friends,/

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The associates and co-partners of our loss

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His wonted pride/

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Soon recollecting, with high words, that bore/semblance of worth, nor substance

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I may assert Eternal Providence,/

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And justify the ways of God to men

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In bulk as huge/

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As whom the fables name of monstrous size […] that sea beast/Leviathan, which God of all his works/created hugest

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By fraud or guile

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Subtly altered from “force or guile”

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Who shall tempt…

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With wandering feet/The dark, unbottomed, infinite abyss,/and through the palpable obscure find out/his uncouth way, or spread his airy flight,/upborne with indefatigable wings/over the vast abrupt

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Thrice threefold…

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The gates; three folds were brass,/three iron, three of adamantine rock,/impenetrable

38
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None.

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Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb […] seemed […] Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell,/ and shook a dreadful dart […] Hell trembled as he strode

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Satan stood…

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Unterrified, and like a comet burned,/ that fires the length of Ophiucus huge/ in th’arctic sky, and from his horrid hair/ shakes pestilence and war

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Treading the crude consistence,

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Half on foot,/half flying […] as when a gryphon through the wilderness, with winged course […]

The rhythm of the line is jarring and reminds us of Satan’s difficulties despite the heroic imagery

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Satan […] with fresh alacrity and force renewed/

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Springs upward, like a pyramid […] when Ulysses on the larboard shunned/ Charybdis

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For whence/but from the author…

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Of all ill, could spring/so deep a malice, to confound the race/of mankind in one root […] to spite/ the great creator

43
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drew after him …

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the third part of Heaven’s sons […] and they, outcast from God, are here condemned/ to waste eternal days in woe and pain?

44
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High on a throne of royal state, which far/

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Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind,/ or where the gorgeous East with richest hand/showers on her kings barbaric Pearl and gold,/Satan exalted sat

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Me thou just right,

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And the fixed laws of Heaven,/did first create your leader […] achieved of merit

46
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Rose/the Monarch,

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And prevented all reply […] but they/dreaded no more th’adventure than his voice /forbidding

47
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Fluttering…

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His pennons vain, plumb-down he drops/ten thousand fathom deep, and to this hour/Down had been falling, had not, by ill chance,/the strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud

48
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Thyself in me thy perfect…

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Image viewing/becam’st enamoured; and such joy thou took’st/with me in secret that my womb conceived/a growing burden

49
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Satan “cannot escape…

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The terms of the fiction he finds himself in” - John Carey

50
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“What we see in Satan…

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Is the horrible co-existence of a subtle and incessant intellectual activity with an incapacity to understand anything” C.S. Lewis

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“Satan is Milton’s picture…

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[…] of the awkward pressures we put on ourselves to interpret our own situation within the mind’s shifting circles of freedom and compulsion” - Kenneth Gross

52
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“If we are to admire…

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Milton’s refusal to idolise the name of king […] it is difficult not to admire much of what Satan says to the same purpose” William Flesch

53
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“The great figure of Satan …

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And its inexorable decline […] is also a sermon on the strength of evil; because you see Satan created as he is, huge in the magnificence with which the first books surround him” - Balachandra Rajan

54
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Meanwhile…

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The adversary of God and Man […]

The narrator undercuts Satan’s heroism with these words of caution.

55
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“There is not a great speech…

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Of Satan’s that Milton is not at pains to correct, dampen down and neutralise” - A J Waldcock

56
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“Satan unavoidably reminds us…

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Of Prometheus” - Walter Alexander Raleigh

57
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“Satan must believe […]

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That he can defy God, but his dry speeches of defiance become in the end merely another euphemism for ‘fulfilling the divine will’” - Jack Foley

58
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“By measuring…

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Satan against heroic standards, we become conscious of the inadequacy and fragility of all the heroic virtues celebrated in literature” - Barbara Lewalski

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“The reader who falls…

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Before the lures of Satanic rhetoric displays […] the weakness of Adam and [fails] to avoid repeating [his] fall” - Stanley Fish

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