Book 2 Flashcards
(57 cards)
Describing Satan on his throne
“High on a throne of royal state”, “Satan exalted sat, by merit raised / To that bad eminence”
Try to validate and justify his throne
“safe unenvied throne / Yielded with full consent.”, “who here / will envy whom the highest place exposes / Foremost to stand against the Thunderer’s aim”
Proposing war not giving an option for peace
“Whether of open war or covert guile, / We now debate; who can advise, may speak”
Moloch - what could be worse than to stay in hell
“what can be worse / Than to dwell here, driven out from bliss, condemned / In this abhorred deep to utter woe”
Moloch - thinks they are strong enough to fight God
“Our power sufficient to disturb his Heav’n”
Moloch - aim is revenge
“if not victory is yet revenge”
Belial -
“he seemed / For dignity composed … / But all was false and hollow”
Belial - insincere and hollow
“he seemed / For dignity composed … / But all was false and hollow”
Belial - describing his lazy nature
“his thought were low, / To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds / Timorous and slothful”
Belial - saying how untouchable God is
“our great enemy / All incorruptible, would on his throne / Sit unpolluted, and th’ ethereal mold / Incapable of stain”
Belial - describing how bad death is
“for who would lose, / Though full of pain, this intellectual being, … / swallowed up and lost, / In the wide womb of uncreated night, / Devoid of sense or motion?
Belial - directly addressing Moloch’s argument, saying it isn’t worse to stay in hell
“Is this then worst, / Thus sitting, thus consulting, thus in arms?”
Belial’s tripartite construction on what would be worse
“Unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved / … this would be worse.”
Belial proposes inaction
“Better these than worse / By my advice”
Belial’s well spoken but empty words
“with words clothes in reason’s garb / Counseled ignoble ease and peaceful sloth / Not Peace”
Mammon - mocking worshipping God though hymns
“celebrate his throne / With warbled hymns, and to his Godhead sing / Forced hallelujahs”
Mammon - renouncing servitude in heaven and proposing to stay free in hell
“Eternity so spent in worship paid / To whom we hate”, “Hard liberty before the easy yoke / Of servile pomp”
Mammon - proposes imitating God’s light
“As he our darkness, cannot we his light, / Imitate when we please?”
comparing the demon’s speech to the wind
“as when hollow rocks retain / The sound of blust’ring winds, which all night long / Had roused the sea, now with hoarse cadence lull / Seafaring men o’erwatched”
Beezlebub’s physical state
“in his rising seemed / A pillar of state”, “Majestic though in ruin”, “Atlantean shoulders fit to bear / The weight of mightiest monarchies
Beezlebub countering Mammon saying they were free in hell
“In strictest bondage” “captive multitude”, “but over Hell extend / His empire, and with iron scepter rule / Us here, as with his golden those in Heav’n”
Beezlebub proposing they find an easier option
“What if we find / Some easier enterprise?”
Beezlebub mentioning the creation of humans
“To be created like to us, though less / in power and excellence, but favoured more / Of him who rules above”
Beezlebub proposing to seduce humans due to their weakness
“may lie exposed, / The utmost border of his kingdom, left / To their defense”, “Seduce them to our party, that their God / May prove their foe and with repenting hand / Abolish his own works”
