Key quotes (9) Prelapsarian Flashcards
“I see pleasures about me, so much more I feel torment within me.. For only in destroying I find ease”
Repetition to line 86: shows Satan’s jealousy.
AO3: Satan is in a “self-created hell” - Dr Faustus
“To hide me, and the dark intent I bring” “O foul descent”
AO1: Satan lowering himself into the serpent
“I must now change these notes to tragic”
Milton’s narration
Originally a tragedy
Prelapsarian move
“Nothing lovelier can be found in Women, then studie household good […] safest and seemliest by her husband stays”
AO3 - gender roles/expectations of the time
Misogyny
“Immortal Eve” “daughter of God and man”
Adam’s argument for not separating
Attempted flattery
Manipulation
AO3: Hierarchy - women are less
“How are we happie, still in fear of harm?” “What is faith, love, Virtue unassaied?”
Eve arguing that they cannot be happy fearing temptation
“Event perverse”
AO1: Eve turns away from Adam
Augustinian theodicy: evil is the lack of good
“But the hot hell that always in him burns”
Satan tries to be good but hell is always within him
AO3: Dr Faustus, hell is a “state of being” away from God
“celestial patroness”
muse - epic convention (however unlike traditional epics, Milton’s muse appears unimplored”
“my unpremeditated verse”
Milton’s narration
Juxtaposes Satan’s “meditated fraud and malice, bent on man’s destruction”
“revenge, at first though sweet, bitter ere long back on itself recoils”
AO1: He knows he will be punished and it will end badly
Vindice figure
Eve - “let us
divide our labours”
“But God left free the will,
for what obeys Reason, is free, and reason he made right”
“But God left free the will, for what obeys Reason, is free, and reason he made right”
“made right” - Manichaen theodicy
“Reason” - Renaissance concept of what makes humans human
Arminian perspective - “free will”
“he sought them both, but wished
his hap might find Eve separate”
