Seduction Flashcards
LINE 121
“So much more I feel torment within me”
Idea of internalised sin, inherently evil
“I myself am Hell”
Cannot escape because he is hell
Milton justifies ways of god to man: satan points out own flaws
Sin will always make you torment internally
God, less evil
Line 227
“Sole eve, associate sole”
Sibilance, flattery
Play on words, twisting
Line 500-501
“Crested aloft (…) burnished neck (…) erect”
Phallic imagery of satan approaching eve
Invasive expansion
Image of grandness
538-40
“Fairest (…) fair (…) celestial beauty adore with ravishment (…) universally admired”
Eve’s hamartia is flattery
Book 5 - eve had dream when satan said shed become goddess by eating fruit
Book 4 - obsessed with self looks
547
“A goddess among gods”
Deifies
550/734
“Into the heart of eve his words made way”
“Into her heart too easy entrance won”
Penetrating violation
, pejorative connotations?
736-7
“Rung of his persuasive words, imprégnés with reason to her seeming (…) hour of noon”
Pervasive image
BELSEY: “Appeals precisely to reason”
Noon - Jesus was crucified
684
Queen of this universe
Again, regal
791
“Greedily she engorged without restraint”
Trochiac “greedily” disrupts metre
HEDONISTIC
VOLUPTUOUS
BESTIAL
Sinful
795
O sovereign virtuous, precious of all trees
She subsumes satan’s language in IDOLATROUS EXORDIUM as she falls
Salience is false wisom as sapere = to taste
So conflates pleasure and wisdom and undermines
Line 800
“My early care, not without song”
FOWLER: “A travesty of hymns”, “idolatrous LITURGY” - blasphemous ritual as eve sings hymns to the tree rather than god
1038
“To a shady bank / Thick overhead with verdant roof embowered (…) asphodel”
Sex concealed, before it was under an open sky
Asphodel - flower of the underworld
Vs book 4 sex:
“Both turned, and under open sky adored / the god that made both sky, air, earth and heaven”
They had “adoration pure” for god
