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Narrator - the invocation

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‘No more of talk’

‘I now must change / these notes to tragic’

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Heroic description of Satan L54

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‘now improved / In meditated fraud and malice, bent / On Man’s destruction, mature what might hap / Of heavier on himself, fearless returned’

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Satan compared to Achilles

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‘Argument / Not less but more heroic than the wrath / Of stern Achilles on his foe pursued / Thrice fugitive about Troy wall’
Satan - ‘thrice the equinoctial line / He circled

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Narrator setting the scene for Satan’s soliloquy

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‘from inward grief / His bursting passion into plaints thus poured:’

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Satan on Pleasures and Torment + the reason he destroys

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the more I see / Pleasures about me, so much more I feel / Torment within me’

‘For only in destroying I find ease / To my relentless thoughts’

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Satan’s disguise

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‘The serpent sleeping, in whose mazy folds / To hide me’

‘in at his mouth / The devil entered’

‘Circular base of rising folds, that towered / Fold above fold a surging maze’

‘carbuncle his eyes, / With burnished neck of verdant gold, erect / Amidst his circling spires’

Compared through epic simile to jewels

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Satan on revenge

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‘Revenge, at first though sweet, / Better ere long back on itself recoils; / Let it’
‘Whom us the more to spite his maker raised / From dust: spite then with spite is best repaid’

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Pathetic fallacy in the Garden of Eden

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‘humid flowers that breathed / Their morning incense’ - pastoral imagery sets quiescent mood of Paradise

‘Sky loured, and muttering thunder, some sad drops / Wept’ - dark imagery reflects consequences of the fall

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Adam and Eve praying to God in the morning compared to Eve’s offer to the apple

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‘forth came the human pair / And joined their vocal worship to the choir / Of creatures’

similar to Eve’s offer to sing the apple ‘a song, each morning, and due praise / Shall tend thee’

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Separation debate - Eve’s ‘Parable of the talents’ work ethic vs Adam’s ‘parable of the vineyard’ argument

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Eve:
‘Let us divide our labours’
‘Looks intervene and smiles’

Adam:
‘Sweet intercourse / Of looks and smiles’
‘For not to irksome toil, but to delight / He made us’

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Suggestion of Eden’s unsustainable nature

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‘much their work outgrew / The hands’ dispatch of two gardening so wide’

‘till more hands / Aid us, the work under our labour grows, / Luxurious by restraint’

‘with wanton growth derides / Tending to wild’

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Separation debate -‘domestic Adam’’s weakness to exercise his authority

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says Eve is ‘above all living creatures’ - goes against God’s hierarchy of chain of being

‘but if much converse perhaps / Thee satiate, to short absence I could yield’
‘could’=modal auxiliary verb

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Separation debate - Adam’s weak, impersonal aphorisms

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‘nothing lovelier can be found / In woman, than to study household good’

‘short retirement urges sweet return’

‘The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, / Safest and seemliest by her husband stays / Who guards her, or with her the worst endures’

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Separation debate - Adam focusing the argument on him

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‘I from the influence of thy looks receive / Access in every virtue… why shouldest not thou like sense within thee feel’

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Separation debate - Eve recognising Adam’s fear

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‘fear that my firm faith and love / Can by his fraud be shaken or seduced’
‘what is fat, love, virtue unassayed / Alone, without exterior help sustained?’

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Eve refuting Adam’s ‘foul esteem argument’

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Adam: ‘he who tempts, though in vain, at least asperses / The tempted with dishonour foul’

Eve: ‘his foul esteem / Sticks no dishonour on our front, but turns / Foul on himself’

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Eve exposing Eden’s flaws

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‘How are we happy, still in fear of harm?’

‘Eden were no Eden thus exposed’

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Adam’s accurate warning

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Warns of ‘some fair appearing good’

‘fall into deception unaware’

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Recurring motif of hands emblem

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‘our joint hands / Will keep from wilderness with ease’

‘from her husband’s hand her hand / Soft she withdrew’

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Classical simile used in Eve’s description

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Eve compared to ‘Ceres in her prime, / Yet virgin of Prosperina from Jove’

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Foreshadowing (Eve flower metaphor)

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‘O much deceived, much failing, hapless Eve, / Of thy presumed return! event perverse!’

‘fairest unsupported flower, / From her best prop so far, and storm so nigh. / Nearer he drew’
(ambiguity of pronoun he)

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Satan’s exciting present tense movement

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‘Then voluble and bold, now hid, now seen’

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Epic simile making Satan relatable as a ‘gentleman’

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‘As one who long in populous city pent’ - consonance

‘conceives delight’ - assonance

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Satan’s reaction to seeing Eve

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‘Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed’

However she is a ‘pleasure not for him ordained’

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Satan’s obsequious behaviour as the serpent

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‘licked the ground whereon she trod’

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Satan’s opening line in his ‘fraudulent temptation’ compared to Eve’s opening line to Adam

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Satan to Eve: ‘Wonder not, sovereign mistress’

Eve to Adam: ‘Hast thou not wonder’d’

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Satan’s seduction - flattery

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‘Fairest resemblance of thy maker fair’
‘Celestial beauty’
‘Queen of this universe’

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Satan’s seduction - making her discontent with Paradise

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Suggests Eve is looked upon by ‘Beholders rude, and shallow’, she ‘shouldest be seen / A goddess among gods, adored and served / By angels numberless’

‘Of all these garden trees ye shall not eat, / Yet lords declared of all in Earth or air?’

‘your eyes that seem so clear, / Yet are but dim, shall perfectly be then / Opened and cleared’

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Satan’s seduction - passion ruling her reason

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‘Into the heart of Eve his words made way’

‘Not unamazed’

‘Yet more amazed’

‘his words replete with guile / Into her heart too easy entrance won’

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Satan seducing Eve with maternal image, appeal of lust and appeal of knowledge

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Smell of fruit is likened to ‘the teats / Of ewe or goat dropping with milk at even’

Sexual semantic field, e.g ‘Sated’

‘Thenceforth to speculations high or deep / I turned my thoughts, and with capacious mind / Considered all things’

Gives him Aristotelian ability to ‘discern / Things in their causes’

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Satan anti-authoritarian sentiments

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‘to keep ye low and ignorant, / His worshippers’

‘The gods are first, and that advantage use / On our belief, that all from them proceeds, I question it’

‘Or is it envy, and can envy dwell / In heavenly breasts?’ (theologically flawed - God cannot be envious)

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Satan and then Eve’s blasphemy with the fruit

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‘O sacred, wise, and wisdom-giving plant, / Mother of science’

‘Fruit divine’

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Satan affecting Eve’s logic

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Satan: ‘ye shall not die: / How should ye? by the Fruit? It gives you life / To knowledge. By the Threatener? look on me’

‘in her ears the sound / Yet rung of his persuasive words, impregned / With Reason’

Eve: ‘we shall die. How dies the serpent? he hath eaten and lives’

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Eve then Adam on forbidden pleasures

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E: ‘his forbidding / Commends thee more’

A: ‘such pleasure be/ In things to us forbidden’

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Eve’s naivety

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Says Satan ‘envies not’, he is ‘author unsuspect, / Friendly to Man, far from deceit or guile’ - reversed foot reveals perverse irony of her statement

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Sexual semantic field associated with fruit

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Satan says he is ‘Sated’

The fruit ‘Solicited her longing eye’ - solicit has connotations of prostitute offering services

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Moment Eve eats the fruit

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‘So saying, her rash hand evil hour / Forth reaching to the Fruit, she plucked, she ate’

‘Greedily she engorged without restraint’

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Postlapsarian Eve adopting Satan’s logic

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‘opener mine eyes, / Dim erst’

Refers to God as ‘Our great Forbidder, safe with all his spies / About him’

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Postlapsarian Eve considering equality

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‘keep the odds of knowledge in my power / Without copartner’

‘render me more equal, and perhaps / A thing not undesirable, sometime / Superior’

lying to Adam: ‘godhead, which for thee / Chiefly I sought’

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Adam’s reaction to Eve’s story

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‘amazed, / Astonied stood and blank, while horror chill / Ran through his veins’

flowers ‘ Down dropped, and all the faded roses shed: / Speechless he stood and pale’

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Adam’s d alliteration about postlapsarian Eve

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‘How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, / Defaced, deflowered, and now to death devote?’

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Adam’s reason for eating

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‘we are one, / One flesh, to lose thee were to lose myself’

‘he scrupled not to eat’
‘not deceived, / But fondly overcome with female charm’

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Satan’s closing line compared to Eve’s closing line

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Satan: ‘reach then, and freely taste’

Eve: ‘Adam, freely taste’

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Overindulgence

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Satan: ‘eat my fill’
Adam: ‘eating his fill’
Satan: ‘Sated’
Eve: ‘Greedily she engorged without restraint’
Eve: ‘dilated spirits, ampler heart, and growing’ - suggestion of obesity

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Eve’s reaction to Adam eating

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O glorious trial of exceeding Love, / Illustrious evidence, example high!’

‘This happy trial of thy love’

‘So saying, she embraced him, and for joy / Tenderly wept’

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Adam and Eve’s actions immediately after the fall

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‘They swim in mirth’

A:’Carnal desire inflaming’
‘inflame my sense’
E: ‘eye darted contagious fire’
‘in lust they burn’

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Postlapsarian long term effects

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‘found their eyes how opened, and their minds / How darkened; innocence, that as a veil / Had shadowed them from knowing ill, was gone’

‘destitute and bare / Of all their virtue’

‘Their guilt and dreaded shame; O how unlike / To that first naked glory’

‘shook sore’ their mind, ‘tossed and turbulent’

‘nor only tears / Rained at their eyes, but high winds worse within’

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Postlapsarian Adam

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‘O Eve, in evil hour thou didst give ear / To that false worm’ - phonologically associating Eve with evil

‘cover me ye pines, / Ye cedars, with innumerable boughs / Hide me’

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Postlapsarian argument

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Adam: ‘Would thou hadst hearkened to my words’

Eve: ‘why didst not thou the head / Command me absolutely not to go, / Going into such danger as thou sadist’
Says if he had done this ‘ Neither had I transgressed, nor thou with me’

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Ending in postlapsarian argument

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‘Thus it shall befall / Him who to worth in women overthrusting / Lets her will rule; restraint she will not brook’

‘Thus they in mutual accusation spent / The fruitless hours’

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