Paradise Lost Key Quotes! Flashcards
(11 cards)
“Meditated fraud & malice bent on man’s destruction”
Satans ambition
“Go for thy stay, not free, absents thee more; go in thy nature innocence, rely on what thou hast of virtue”.
The idea she will be distant from him. Adam gives in eventually and thinks that Eve should make the decision.
“I know must change these notes to tragic”
Milton expressing even at the very beginning the tragedy! Foreshadows later event.
“Thee serpent, subtlest beast of all the field” and its “diabolical power”
Links to satans revenge, reflects his desire to have all power and control over man and go unnoticed. Satan approaches Eve ‘side long’ this pretence or shyness and caution. It’s this sycophancy as he acts incredibly submissive. Tempting her in a semantic field of divinity, admiration & beauty. Satans tragic position: appreciates Eve but ‘looses sense’ of the beauty of it.
“The wife where danger or dishonour lurks, safest and seemliest by the husband stays, who guard her or with her the worst endures” (women need male protection).
Eve & Adam eat the fruit. The audience knew Adam would fall for Eve’s uxuriousness.
Delectation
Letting pleasure grow
Suggestio
Taking pleasure in thoughts of sin.
Consensuo
Refusing to stop thinking
Optus
Evil
Who is the revenge in PL?
Satan
Who is the avenger in PL?
God
