Sin Flashcards
Which monster of Ovid is she compared to
Scylla
Is sin better or worse than Scylla
‘Far less abhorred than these vexed Scylla’
What does comparing her to Scylla than revealing her to be worse do
Shocks the reader, shows them something they know to be awful and explain how much worse it is
The hell hounds would ‘?’ ‘Into..?’
Creep
Into her womb and kennel there
Sin is compared to witches who are what
Lured with the smell of infant blood to dance
Sin as a mother inversión
Miltons audience would have associated motherhood as an intrinsic element of the identity of a woman and so this birth and rebirth of dogs is a perverse inversión of that
How does Milton deepen her associations as a grotesque form of motherhood
Lured
Comparing her and calling her worse than the witches who are ‘lured with the smell of infant blood to dance’
To which the ‘moon eclipses’ showing how nature itself is faltering in their presence
Sin herself an inversión of birth
John Rumrich quote on this point of origin
Sin is Satan’s “point of origin as God’s adversary. It amounts to self-reformation, or re-creation through subtraction.”
Sin is the product of Satan attempting to play God as the creator
Rumrich quote about sympathising with Sin
Readers may pity her…
readers may pity her as a passive victim, more sinned against than sinning
Kean critic quote (tail)
Pleasant at first
Pleasant at first but with a sting in the tail
Sin identified the scene of her birth and naming as the instance of
‘Miserable pain’
Quote on her appearance
Upper and lower half split between two lines
Seemed woman..
Seemed woman to the waist and fair
But ended foul in many a scary fold
She is described as ‘a serpent armed
With mortal sting’
Out of
Thy head I sprung!
What did heaven do when sin was birthed
Back they
Back they recoiled afraid At first and called me “sin”
