Key quotes PL IX Flashcards
(45 cards)
“I must now
change these notes to tragic”
“celestial
patroness” - muse is an epic convention
“mediated
fraud and malice, bent on man’s destruction”
“fittest
imp of fraud”
Satan’s soliloquy - “terrestrial
heaven”
“for only in
destroying I find ease to my relentless thoughts”
“freed
from servitude inglorious”
“now constrained
into a beast, and mixed with bestial slime”
Satan’s two motivations
“ambition and revenge”
how can we see the revenge tragedy
Satan says that “spite then with spite is best repaid” in his soliloquy
how does Satan show that he is snake-like before he even becomes one
“in labyrinth of many a round self-rolled” - tangles him up in himself and his thoughts
“the human
pair”
Morning worship
“vocal worship”
“let us
divide our labours”
“for nothing lovelier can
be found in woman than to study household good”
“malicious
foe envying our happiness”
Eve says that Satan “seeks
our ruin”
“the wife […] safest
and seemliest by her husband, who guards her”
before they separate, they talk about “falling into
deception unaware”
“weaker
seek” (sex)
Milton’s narration describes Eve as
“like a wood-nymph”
male gaze from Adam
“his eye pursued delighted, but desiring”
Milton’s interjection
“O much deceived, much failing, hapless Eve! Event perverse!”
Satan “sought them
both, but wished his hap might find Eve separate”
