Quotations Book 9 Flashcards
satan too proud to tempt Eve the ‘weaker sex’
“The Enemy, though Bold, will hardly dare”
Adam giving option of free will to Eve
“Go; for thy stay, not free, absents thee more”
Adam gives permission
“With thy permission, then, and thus forewarned”
Adam emphasis idea of innocence and purity as well as predestination
” Daughter of God and man, immortal Eve,
For such thou art, from sin and blame entire”
unfortunate Eve
“O much deceived, much failing, hapless Eve”
Eve is alone emphasis venerability
“oft stopping to support”
satan hates Eve more for her beauty- he can’t have
“And beauty, not approached by stronger hate”
Satan disrupting hierarchy
” A goddess among gods”
satan– lexical inversion
“Language of man pronounced
By tongue of brute”
physical temptation- first phase of sin suggesto
” A goodly tree far distant to behold
Loaden with fruit of fairest colours mixed”
syllogism of all knowledge from eating fruit— false deduction
” And gaze, and worship thee of right declared
Sov’reign of creatures, universal dame.”
Eve can’t eat the fruit
“Fruitless to me, though fruit to be here to excess”
Eve uses Satan rhetoric- second phase of sin deleclatio
“our reason is our law”
thoughts of able to defeat hierarchy
” knowledge of good and evil”
closer to God
“knowing both good and evil as they know”
Eve mirroring Satan - third phase of sin consensus
“this fruit divine, fair to the eye, inviting to taste
Of virtue to make wise”
Opus- sin
“she plucked she ate”
Milton displaying Eve lack of restraint, ironic eating to her death
” Greedily she engorged without restraint, And knew not eating death”
Drunk on knowledge– ironic losing her self restraint
” And heightened as with wine”
resemblance to God
“Fairest resemblance”
description of serpent
“Thee, serpent, subtlest beast of all the field”
hierarchy
” I of brute human, ye of human gods”
Eve reducing society down to her power– manipulative
“knowledge in my power”
Eve wants to be equal
“inferior who is free?”
Eve becoming jealous doesn’t want Adam to be happy without her
“then I shall be no more, And Adam wedded to another Eve”
Eve disrupting hierarchy as above Adam
“that equal lot may join us, equal joy, as equal love”
powerful image of transition of Eve
“faded roses shed”
Eve made from Adam rib – Adam has no choice
“flesh of flesh Bone of my bone”
Adam uses bond as justification
“One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself”
linked
“One heart, one soul in both”
Adam prolepsis to death
“Adam, freely taste, And fear of death deliver to the winds”
Adams love for Eve
“fondly overcome with female charm”
Hellish imagery
“in lust they burn”
Adam in control after sinful act— hidden shameful
” Her hand he seized, and to a shady bank”
feeling of guilt
“To guilty Shame: he covered but his robe uncovered more”
Adam blaming Eve
” O Eve, in the evil hour thou didst give ear To that false worm”
Adam sees the bad
“Both good and evil, good lost, evil got”
emotions after sin
“high passions, anger, hate, mistrust, suspicion, discord”
Adam fault as he let Eve go
” Command me absolutely not to go”
Eve needed free will
“lifeless ribe”
they have failed– ending line of Book 9
“The fruitless hours, but neither self- condemning, And of their vain contest appeared no end”
theme of temptation and good vs evil
“our great forbidder”
