PL Quotes - Milton as narrator

Question 1

Satan - The argument

Answer 1

• ‘With meditated guile’

- ‘With many wiles and arguments’

Question 2

Milton as narrator

Answer 2

5 “I now must change / these notes to tragic”
24 “unpremeditated verse”
42 “higher argument”
835 “low reverence done”

Question 3

Satan - Soliloquy (p1)

Answer 3

54………now improved / In meditated fraud and malice, bent / On Man’s destruction………”

69 “unsuspected way”

Question 4

Satan - Soliloquy (p2)

Answer 4

87 “The serpent subtlest beast of all the field”

89 “fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud”

98 “His bursting passion into plaints thus poured:”

Question 5

Satan - Soliloquy (p3)

Answer 5

187 “Fearless unfeared he slept…”

190 “act intelligential”

Question 6

Adam - talking to Eve (p1)

Answer 6

225 “to whom mild answer Adam thus replied”

290 “To whom with healing words Adam thus replied”

Question 7

Eve - talking to Adam (p1)

Answer 7

271 “To whom the virgin majesty of Eve, / As one who loves, and some unkindness meets, / With sweet austere composure thus replied”

Question 8

Adam and Eve

Answer 8

399 “Oft he to her his charge of quick return,

Repeated, she to him as oft engaged”

Question 9

Eve - being seduced by Satan (p1)

Answer 9

404 “O much deceived, much failing, hapless Eve”
411 “Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss”
432 “fairest unsupported flower”
456 “the sweet recess of Eve”

Question 10

Satan - seducing Eve (p1)

Answer 10

409 “with hellish rancour imminent”
416 “his purposed prey”
424 “Beyond his hope, Eve separate he spies”
436 “Then voluble and bold, now hid, now seen”

Question 11

Satan - seducing Eve (p2.1)

Answer 11

461 “with rapine sweet”

464 “the evil one abstracted stood / From his own evil, and for the time remained / Stupidly good..”

470 “of pleasure not for him ordained”

Question 12

Satan - seducing Eve (p2.2)

Answer 12

494 “So spake the enemy of Mankind

503 “pleasing was his shape”

Question 13

Satan - seducing Eve (p2.3)

Answer 13

531 “His fraudulent temptation thus began”

549 “So glozed the tempter and his proem tuned”

567 “To whom the guileful tempter thus replied”

Question 14

Eve - being seduced by Satan (p2)

Answer 14

552 “Not unamazed”
644 “our credulous mother”
659 “To whom thus Eve yet sinless”

Question 15

Satan / Eve (p1)

Answer 15

613 “So talked the spirited sly snake”

“and Eve / Yet more unwary thus replied”

Question 16

Satan - seducing Eve (p3.1)

Answer 16

645 “root of all our woe”

678 “The tempter all impassioned thus began”

Question 17

Satan - seducing Eve (p3.2)

Answer 17

733 “his words replete with guile”
“Into her heart too easy entrance won”

737 “his persuasive words, impregned / With Reason

Question 18

Adam - talking to Eve (p2)

Answer 18

318 “So spake domestic Adam in his care / And matrimonial love…”

342 “To whom thus Adam fervently replied”

Question 19

Eve - talking to Adam (p2)

Answer 19

321 “her reply with accent sweet renewed”

385 “Thus saying, from her husband’s hand her hand / Soft she withdrew,……”

Question 20

Eve - eating the fruit

Answer 20

“So saying, her rash hand in evil hour / Forth reaching to the Fruit, she plucked she ate”

Question 21

Eve and Adam - after Eve eats the fruit

Answer 21

Eve: “low reverence done”
Adam: “he the faltering measure felt”

Question 22

Eve - explaining why she ate the fruit to Adam

Answer 22

“Thus Eve with countenance blithe her story told; / But in her cheek distemper flushing glowed”

Question 23

Adam - being seduced by Eve (p1)

Answer 23

“Submitting to what seemed remediless”

“Thus in calm mood his words to Eve he turned”

Question 24

Adam - being seduced by Eve (p2)

Answer 24

“he scrupled not to eat”

“fondly overcome with female charm”

Question 25

Adam and Eve - after eating apple (p1)

Answer 25

1015 “in lust they burn”
1064 “Confounded long they sate, as stricken mute”
1114 “O how unlike / To that first naked glory”

Question 26

Adam and Eve - after eating apple (p2)

Answer 26

1121 “…….nor only tears
Rained at their eyes, but high winds worse within
Began to rise, high passions, anger, hate,
Mistrust, suspicion, discord, and shook sore
Their inward state of mind,”

Question 27

Adam - after eating apple

Answer 27

1132 “Adam, estranged in look and altered style

Question 28

Adam and Eve - after eating apple (p3)

Answer 28

1187 “Thus they in mutual accusation spent / The fruitless hours”

Question 29

Satan / Eve (p2)

Answer 29

644 “So glister’d the dire snake, and into fraud led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree of Prohibition, root of all our woe”