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”
