Satan Quotes

Question 1

Satan talking about destruction of Eden

Milton alludes to the monarchy falling short of God’s aspirations for England + rebellion making up deficiency

Answer 1

‘In one day to have marr’d what he almighty styl’d in six’

Question 2

Satan as passive and controlled by emotion

Answer 2

‘Full of anguish driven’

Question 3

Form Satan takes in paradise

Presents insubstansive nature of evil

Answer 3

‘Satan involv’d in rising mist’

Question 4

Satan searching for a suitable animal

Oxymoronic nature of evil is presented - can be sympathised with but should be shunned

Answer 4

‘Roam’d with narrow search’

Question 5

Satan searching for a suitable animal

Links to Noah’s ark but this comes first = presents evil as being at root of humanity

Answer 5

‘Considered every creature’

Question 6

Satan searching for a suitable animal

Sibilance denotes softness and security whilst plosives presents underlying deception and brutality

Answer 6

‘The serpent, subtlest beast of all the field’

Question 7

Sublimity of Eden

Motif of light and dark projected in weather from satan’s own duality

Answer 7

‘Twixt day and night… Nights hemisphere had veil’d th’ horizon round’

Question 8

How darkness is more attractive to the baser instincts of humanity

Presents how the revolution was lacking despite this

Answer 8

‘Seven continued nights he rode with darkness’

Question 9

Satan re: man

Irony of the phrase - Satan makes better use of them

Answer 9

‘Growth, sense, reason, all summ’d up in man’

Question 10

Satan on his nature

Link to Francisco in and how he tries to find amusement in what he does - ‘my tragedy must have some idle mirth in’t’

Answer 10

‘Only in destroying I find ease’

Question 11

Satan re: the snake

Presents England as having lost sight of right and wrong - godly reform and monarchical rule respectively

Answer 11

‘Whose mazy folds to hide me and the dark intent I bring’

Question 12

Satan re: his demise

Sibilants and plosives juxtapose godly and ungodly respectively - dangerous bc we feel sympathy for the ungodly

Answer 12

‘With gods to sit the highest, am now constrain’d into a beast’

Question 13

Satan re: humankind

Satan cont. to fall as he undermines God further w ref to other gods - link to Old Testament ‘I am a vengeful God…’

Answer 13

‘Man of clay’

Question 14

Satan re: snake

Description mirrors Satan’s rhetoric language and its deceptive and powerful nature

Answer 14

‘Labyrinth of many a round self roll’d’

Question 15

Satan when he sees Eve

Presents Eve as separate from Adam through Latinate syntax and 3 types of alliteration mirror satan’s layers of deception

Answer 15

‘When to his wish, beyond his hope, Eve separate he spies’

Question 16

Satan’s walk

Mirrors Eve’s ‘Delia’s self in gate surpass’d’
also has connotations w his rhetoric language

Answer 16

‘Walk… Voluble and bold’

Question 17

Satan’s momentary infatuation with Eve

Just like Vittoria, Eve does nothing to solicit Satan’s affection and this desire man feels is the fault of the woman - polarisation

Answer 17

‘Overaw’d his malice

‘Stupidly good’

Question 18

Satan when he sees Eve

Satan blurs the boundaries between good and evil with his previous lapse into goodness and thus presents good and evil as not black and white

Answer 18

‘But the hot hell that always in him burns… And tortures him now more, the more he sees of pleasure not for him’

Question 19

Satan re: corruption and mischief

Satan revels in the idea of mischief and corruption just like Flamineo and Francisco w his letter to Vittoria

Answer 19

‘Of mischief, gratulating, thus excites’

Question 20

Satan talking of Eden

Satan can be aligned with Milton here bc he is living in the hell of the restoration with the prospect of a future paradise of a Godly Reformation bc of CII’s toleration

Answer 20

‘Of paradise for hell’

Question 21

When Satan witnesses Paradise

Parallels with opposition in Civil Wars - siege of Oxford 1644

Answer 21

‘I feel torment within me, as from the hateful siege of contraries’

Question 22

Satan on Eve’s beauty

Oxymoronic nature of love and hate converge in Satan’s clever rhetoric and his intent is concealed

Answer 22

‘Beauty not approach’d by stronger hate, hate stronger, under show of love’

Question 23

Satan’s description

Circular motion and enjambment mirrors Satan’s rhetoric and omnipresence

Answer 23

‘Amidst his circling spires’

Question 24

Satan’s description

Antithesis of just/noble and phallic - duality

Answer 24

‘With burnish’d neck of verdant gold, erect’

Question 25

Satan moving towards Eve

Epic simile of Satan moving as a ship shows Satan’s politic nature which juxtaposes most Machiavellian charas in WD who are directly deceptive, and is similar to the way Vittoria is described - as politic and pretending to be uninterested when she is

Answer 25

‘Side-long he works his way’

‘Curl’d many a wanton wreath’

Question 26

Satan talking to eve about gods

References to different types of Gods is sinful - Satan is aligned with Milton in his desire to interpret God independently of church influence

Answer 26

‘Goddess among gods’

Question 27

Satan talking to eve

Satan satisfies eves curiosity - Adam does not in his meetings with angels.
Satan = Bracciano
Adam = Camillo

Answer 27

‘Easy to me it is to tell thee all’

Question 28

Satan talking about the fruit

Disguises sinfulness of the fruit with biblical references

Answer 28

‘Blowing myrrh and balm’

Question 29

Satan’s walk

Boundaries are blurred between opposites - makes sin seem logical and good seem evil just like how Milton turned ppl to what they saw as traditionally sinful (revolution)

Answer 29

‘Made intricate seem straight’

Question 30

Satan using republican rhetoric

Succession of rhetorical Q’s in name of sin and archaic syntax aligns eating fruit (sin) with goodness of the old established hierarchy of God

Answer 30

‘How should ye? By the fruit?’

Question 31

Satan’s nihilistic values that come with sinfulness

Satan sells the empty life he leads to Eve (nihilism) w alliteration of ‘N’ and monosyllabic sounds

Answer 31

‘Not just, not God; not fear’d then, nor obey’d’

Question 32

Satan’s persuasive rhetoric

Assonance gives an uplifting feel o the phrase that matches what the action will be like - to better self

Answer 32

‘Goddess humane, reach then, and freely taste’

Question 33

Satan fleeing after eve eats the fruit

Just like a Machiavellian villain - leaves bf consequences like monticelso who persuades Francisco to use the black book then has no more to do with the affair

Answer 33

‘Back to the thicket slunk the guilty serpent’

Question 34

Eve’s language mirrors Satan’s after she transgresses and eats the fruit

Makes God seem evil and Satan seem good bc God is also implicated in the act of voyeurism

Answer 34

God is ‘safe wth all his spies’