Quotes Flashcards
“All good to me becomes harmful”
Satan - everything he is involved with becomes bad.
“For only destroying i find ease/ relentless thoughts”
Satan - shows us he is full of destruction and intensity.
“determined to advance into our room/ a creature formed of earth”
Satan - serpent entering garden of Eden is omniscient like God… knows what will happen before it has
“Revenge, at first though sweet/ bitter ere long back on itself recoils”
Satan - ironic due to himself doing this exact thing.
“Divide our labours”
Eve
“doubt possesses me/ malicious foe”
Adam
“enmity disarmed, of guilt, of hate, of envy, of revenge; but the hot hell that always in him burns soon ended his delight.”
Satan loses all of his anger and hatred when seeing Eve for the first time due to her natural beauty. soon his anger overrides that and he returns to normal.
“faded roses shed”
“the garland wreathed”
words describing events after the fall.
“Certain my resolution is to die”
Adam - deciding to join Eve and eat the fruit.
Satan going around Earth toward Eden
“seven continued nights he rode with darkness”
“Orb he roamed”
Satan choosing the serpent as a disguise
“serpent subtlest beast of all the field”
Satan on his inner feelings
“more I see pleasures about me, so much more I feel torment within me”
Satan on his rash actions
“for only in destroying, I find ease
Vengeance on God and his angels
“revenge at first though sweet, bitter ere long back on it self recoiles”
Prelapsarian Eden
“sacred light began to dawne”
“Humid flowers that breathed their morning incense”
