Satan Quotes Flashcards
Q: Monosyllabic sibilance = serpentile
The Sun was sunk
Q: Personification implies deception
Nights Hemisphere had veild the Horizon
Q: Active verb ‘fled’ implies fear
late fled before the threats
Q: Menacing and thought out
In meditated fraud and malice
Q: Heroics portrayed in contrast
fearless return’d
Q: Fear suggested through adjective ‘cautious’
cautious of day
Q: pre-Byronic hero, rejected and in pain
full of anguish driv’n
Q: Deception and hidden, implies fear or cunning
Satan involv’d in rising Mist
Q: Questing terms - heroism reflected through literary references
From Eden over Pontus, and the Poole Meotis, up beyond the River Ob; Downward as farr Antartic; and in length West from Orontes to the Ocean barr'd At Darien, thence to the Land where flowes Ganges and Indus: thus the Orb he roam'd
Q: Subtle and clever, meditating on his means to an end, suggests petulance
might serve his Wiles
Q: Cannot turn back but in two minds; pre-Byronic, heroic reflection
irresolute / Of thoughts resolv’d
Q: Hidden in the middle of a sentence
his final sentence chose / Fit Vessel, fittest Imp of fraud, in whom / To enter
Q: Maybe a reflection of Milton due to both being vessels
beget of Diabolic pow’r
Q: Continued suffering
from inward griefe
Q: Onomatopoeia, violent imagery creates empathy
His bursting passion into plaints thus pour’d
Q: Ptolemaic world view; lack of knowledge debases him but amplifies his connection to an audience
Terrestrial Heav’n, danc’t round by other Heav’ns
Q: Implies loneliness, evokes sympathy
but I in none of these / Find place or refuge
Q: Cast out and jealous, but empathy because no home
and the more I see / Pleasures about me, so much more I feel / Torment within me
Q: Recognises he’s an enigma
as from the hateful siege / Of contraries
Q: Corruptive but empathy because
all good to me becomes / Bane
Q: Angrily doesn’t want to be in Heaven
But neither here seek I, no nor in Heav’n / To dwell
Q: Overthrow God - Promethean Overreacher
unless by maistring Heav’ns Supreame
Q: Greed drives him
To mee shall be the glorie sole among / The Infernal Powers
Q: Betrayed by God
and who knows how long / Before had been contriving
Q: Heroic freeing of the angels
then I since in one Night freed / From servitude inglorious
Q: Fear of discovery, contrasts bravery
the vigilance / I dread
Q: Ambiguous snakey intent
The Serpent sleeping, in whose mazie foulds / To hide me
Q: Anger at fall
O foul descent!
Q: Admired God, power-hungry
That to the hight of Deity aspir’d
Q: Revenge not rebellion
But what will not Ambition and Revenge / Descend to?
Q: God gives Adam life through his mouth, parallels Satan and God
in at his Mouth / The Devil enterd
Q: Full of snakey power
the Fiend, / Meer Serpent in appearance
Q: Heroic language
his Quest
Q: Violent language negates empathy
his purposd prey
Q: War inside him because Eve is hot
lest action oversawd / His Malice, and with rapine sweet bereav’d / His fierceness of the fierce intent it brought
Q: Eve separates him from his evil
That space the Evil one abstracted stood / From his own evil, and for the time remaind / Stupidly good
Q: Nah, he’s still evil
the Enemie of Mankind
Q: Apparently he’s wholly evil
Inmate bad
Q: Pride in his snakey form
his Head / Crested aloft
burnisht Neck of verdant Gold
Q: Snakey Satan is super sexy
And lovely, never since of Serpent kind / Lovelier
Q: Fake flattery? But he has the sexies for her!
His fraudulent temptation thus began
Q: Smartie snake
the guileful Tempter
Q: Ooh, he’s a cunning snakey; but disconnect from Satan
the spirited sly Snake
Q: He’s the Enjolras of Paradise Lost, criticising God like this
Why but to keep ye low and ignorant, / His worshippers
Q: He’s lying but it’s true about God
Not just, not God
