Paradise Lost/ Volpone disobedience/ convincing/ evil Flashcards
DISOBEDIENCE: blasphemy 1. Earth > Heaven 2. A loves God's work 3. E to tree4. What does v do to gold 4. How does v view gold 5.transcending Riches Fortune Bible
S: “O Earth, how like to Heaven, if not preferred more justly”
A: “best are all things as the will of God ordained them”
E: → Tree “O sovereign, virtuous, precious of all trees” “low reverence”
V want to “kiss [gold] with adoration”
Calls it a “relic of sacred treasure”
Gold: “far transcending all style of joy, in children, parents, friends”
“Riches are in fortune a greater good than wisdom is in nature.” Directly contradicts the bible
“How much better is it to get wisdom than gold!”
DISOBEDIENCE: doubt = guilty
- Main Quote Adam
- In court terms of dress from Vol for C
A: “For he who tempts, though in vain, at least asperses the tempted with dishonour foul”
Vol: (C ) “lewd woman” “adulteress”
DISOBEDIENCE: marital
- Eve- hand
- Eve maybe won’t tell A?!
- Kiss C Cv
- C–> Cv rather death
- Martyr
- C wished to cease being…
- LP adultery
N: “From her husband’s hand her hand soft she withdrew”
“keep the odds of knowledge in my power without co-partner?” Cv: “come, kiss me” [Celia kisses him] obeys
Cv: → C “show yourself obedient, and a wife” “I say it, do so”
C: → Cv “kill me rather”
C: “Sir, what you please, you may; I am your martyr”
C: in court “I wish I could forget I were a creature”- no suicide, dutiful to corvino
“You said e’en your best madams did for maintenance, and why not you?” → LWB offered M sex for maintenance
DISOBEDIENCE: for pleasure
- Eve
- V pretend
“his forbidding commends thee more”
Grand Signor’s mistress… one of our most artful courtesans , or some quick Negro
DISOBEDIENCE: secret?
- Eve
- V doesn’t care, very open
- Cv main concern is not action but reception
“I perhaps am secret: Heaven is high, high and remote”
V: What should I do but… live free to all delights”
“the thing, in ‘tself, I know, is nothing”
CONVINCING: playing to audience
- Eve = unique flower/ destined for better (x2)
- Eve to adam about unity being threatened
- E encourages unity
- M being pitiable
- B’s respone
- M–> LP gondola
- V selling pitch (Scotto)
“sole wonder” “the branches would require thy utmost reach…all other beasts that saw… but could not reach”
E: repetition of “equal” if eat, if not “disjoin us”
“linked in love so dear, to undergo with me one guilt, one crime”
M: “I am forced to eat my careful bread with too much obsequy”
B: → at Mosca’s ‘remorse’ “this cannot be a personated passion!”
: → LWB, SP is “Rowing upon the water in a gondola, with the most cunning courtesan of Venice”
V:“lost; till now…recovered…out of some ruins of Asia” “sent a moiety of it to the court of France… wherewith the ladies there now colour their hair”
CONVINCING: ignoring audience
- Adam expects Eve to love him as much as he loves her
- Cv ‘tempts’ C
- V tells C to ((beauty))
- Offers (x2)
- Pretend!
- C–> appeals to his pity/ his violent nature (x2)
“why shouldst not thou like sense within thee feel when I am present”
Cv: → C “thou shalt have jewels, gowns, attires”
V: → “Use thy fortune [her beauty] well, with secrecy, and pleasure”
V: “a rope of pearl;
V: “heads of parrots, tongues of nightingales
Grand Signor’s mistress… one of our most artful courtesans , or some quick Negro
C: → “If you have conscience—” V: “’Tis the beggar’s virtue.”
C: “be bountiful, and kill me” opposite of what Volpone is about
CONVINCING: language
- Orator
- Quickfire, questions plentiful
- diminishes gravity
- M offers to keep it a secret (CV)
- M–> B about being a lover of good
“of old some orator renowned”
“do not believe those rigid threats of death; ye shall not die: How should ye? By the fruit?”
“petty trespass”
M: “who shall know it? Some one or two-”
M: sites “the pure love which I bear all right, and hatred of all wrong” as his motivation for telling B about Cb
CONVINCING: women
- Eve’s blush
- Eve giving A fruit
- LP= ugly
- V’s disgust at her seduction
“her cheek distemper flushing glowed”
She gave him of that fair enticing fruit with liberal hand”
M: of LWB “she hath not the face to be dishonest.”
LWB: “Laugh and be lusty” V: [aside] “My good angel save me!”
CONVINCING: fluidity
- what S and E call god to convince
- Saying god will like Eve’s disobedience
- does volp vary his persuasion?
- Prologue comment on M
- M does what with discords?
Calls God, “the Threatener”
tells her God will “praise” “your dauntless virtue”
VOLP= no change
Prologue: “weaves other cross-plots”
M: says he will “make so rare a music out of discords”
EVIL/ SIN: appealing
- Satan’s almost heroic prospect
- Such an me- destroy/ thoughts
- Sex location
- Opening line
- Cherry
- Volpone performance
- Mosca aside from CB
“bent on man’s destruction, maugre what might hap of heavier on himself, fearless returned”
“only in destroying I find ease to my relentless thoughts”
“Shady bank, thick overhead with verdant roof”
Good morning to the day; and next, my gold!”
V: “letting the cherry knock against their lips, and draw it by their mouths and back again.”
V as invalid “Uh! Uh! Uh! Uh! Oh-”
Multiple asides from Mosca, as Cb is deaf Cb: True: I know it too. M: By your own scale, sir.
EVIL/ SIN: justified
- satan about spite, basically an eye for an eye
- M about V being an old softy
- universality of evil in Venice town
- Cb suggesting poisoning V
- Cv threat to C about murder
“Spite then with spite is best repaid”
M: → V “you loath the widow’s, or the orphan’s tears”
Women and men of every sex and age”
CB: suggests M give V a “dram” small draught of poison
Cv: threatens “murderof… all thy race” [family]
EVIL/ SIN: unappealing/ unjustified
- Narrator’s sum up of S
- Satan’s aim re: Earth
- Viewpoint on force
- Ending about arguing A and E “fruit pun”
- Cv’s threats (x2)
- Mosca claims he is … near end
- Mosca re: fall of V
N: “the enemy of Mankind” “bad”
“In one day to have marred what he Almighty styled, six nights and days”
“force upon free will hath here no place”
“in mutual accusation spent fruitless hours”- humour- use of irony
rip up Thy mouth unto thine ears; and slit thy nose” “devising Some monstrous crime, which I, in capital letters, Will eat into thy flesh with aquafortis
M: claims he is “possessed” – of wealth, by devil
M: “Let his sport pay for’t, this is called the Fox-trap.”
