Paradise Lost: Satan Flashcards
(18 cards)
‘All ______ to ___ becomes ______’
‘All good to me becomes bane’
- Bane = poison
- Everything that is remotely good becomes bad/harmful to him
‘Only in _____________ I find ease to my ____________ thoughts
‘Only in destroying I find ease to my relentless thoughts
- Controlled by the torment of his sinful thoughts/hatred
‘A ____________ serpent on his _______ prone’
‘A monstrous serpent on his belly prone’
“Satan becomes a ______ for having the courage to stand up to an ___________ he questions the strength and ______________ of”
“Satan becomes a hero for having the courage to stand up to an authority he questions the strength and legitimacy of”
Neville
‘O ________! how like to Heav’n if not _____________’
‘O Earth! how like to Heav’n if not preferred’
- Beginning of Satan’s initial soliloquy in Book 9
- Views earth as beautiful/magnificent, perhaps preferable to heaven
‘O foul __________!’
‘O foul descent!’
- How Satan describes his fall
‘a ____________ among gods’
‘a goddess among gods’
- Satan’s romanticised description of Eve
- His superior view of Eve, fuels his manipulation of her
- Blasphemous??
‘licked the _________ whereon she _____’
‘licked the ground whereon she trod’
- Satan’s idolisation and praising of Eve
‘me who have __________ and __________ yet both live life more _________’
‘me who have touched and tasted yet both live life more perfect’
- Satan’s manipulation of Eve, by describing his elevated state after eating the fruit
‘p____________ d______________’
‘progressive degradation’
C.S Lewis (what satan undergoes)
‘He ______ Eve with the ardour of a _______ in the garden of ______’
‘He woos Eve with the ardour of a knight in the garden of love’
Crook
- Satan
- ‘ardour’=passion
‘a ______ being far ________ to his God’
‘a moral being far superior to his God’
Shelley (Rom.)
‘f_____ s_____________’
Describes Satan’s tempting Eve as a
“fatal seduction”
Gilbert
‘mar in a _____ what it took God ________ to make’
‘mar in a day what it took God seven to make’
- Satan’s commitment to destruction + challenging God’s creation
‘new ___________’
‘new favourite’
- Satan despises Human’s being God’s favourite
‘___________ of this fair ______’
‘Empress of this fair world’
- Satan about Eve
‘If you ____, your ______ ‘shall be _________ and ye shall be as _____’
‘If you eat, your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as gods’
- supposed rewards from eating the fruit
‘Why but to keep you ____ and ____________’
‘Why but to keep you low and ignorant’
- questioning God’s commandment to not eat
- suggesting God is manipulating them
