Satan conversing with Beelzebub B1 - L84-191

Question 1

Beelzebub’s appearance change

Answer 1

Cloth’d with transcendent brightness didst out-shine

Myriads though bright:

Question 2

Satan reinforcing their equal status

Answer 2

‘mutual league,’ ‘United’, ‘equal hope’, ‘joynd with me’, ‘misery hath joynd/ In equal ruin’

Question 3

Satan suggesting the battle was fair

Answer 3

His utmost power with adverse power oppos’d, ‘fierce contention’

Question 4

Satan’s solution

Answer 4

To wage by force or guile eternal Warr

Irreconcileable,

Question 5

allusions to Civil War

Answer 5

‘Tyranny of Heav’n.’

Question 6

Satan’s actual feelings after speaking

Answer 6

So spake th’ Apostate Angel, though in pain,

Vaunting aloud, but rackt with deep despare:

Question 7

Beelzebub talking about the state they are in now

Answer 7

‘for the mind and spirit remains
Invincible’, ‘happy state
Here swallow’d up in endless misery.’

Question 8

Beelzebub suggesting the devils were slaves

Answer 8

him mightier service as his thralls