Key Quotations - Narrator

Question 1

Shift to postlapsarian world

Answer 1

‘I now must change those notes to tragic’

Question 2

Urania, who dictated Gods words to Milton in his sleep

Answer 2

‘Celestial Patroness’

Question 3

Eve being deceived

Answer 3

‘O much deceav’d, much failing, hapless Eve’

Question 4

Satan seeing Eve

Answer 4

‘For the time remain’d stupidly good’

Question 5

Satan finally convincing Eve

Answer 5

‘His words replete with guile into her heart too easie entrance won

Question 6

Satan not being truly evil, guilt

Answer 6

‘Back to the thickest slunk the gulitie serpent’

Question 7

Eve eating the fruit

Answer 7

‘Greedily she ingorg’d without restraint’

Question 8

Macrocosmic event

Answer 8

‘She pluck’d, she ate, Earth felt the wounds

Question 9

Eve’s quick action

Answer 9

‘Her rash hand in evil hour’

Question 10

Postlapsarian sex being lustful and sinful

Answer 10

‘In lust they burne’

Question 11

Adam falling by uxouriousness

Answer 11

‘Not deceived, but fondly overcome with femal charm

Question 12

Adam eating the fruit, impact on nature

Answer 12

‘Nature gave a second groan’

Question 13

Adam and Eve realising what they’ve done and feeling guilt

Answer 13

‘Unkindly fumes with conscious dreams’

Question 14

Adam and Eve’s shame

Answer 14

‘Covering if to hide thir guilt and dreaded shame’

Question 15

Criticising one another

Answer 15

‘The fruitless hours, but neither self-condemming’