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Paradise Lost - Satan Flashcards

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Who first seduced them…

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To that could revolt? / the infernal Serpent; he it was whose guile, stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived / the mother of mankind

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Mutual league […]

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United thoughts and counsels, equal hope […] in equal ruin

Confused sentence structure; tricking the reader
Exordium

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The pilot of some small…

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Night-foundered skiff / […] with fixèd anchor in his scaly rind

Isaiah 21: the Leviathan is the “enemy of the Lord” and his “heads” were crushed, so Satan will lose again (Leviathan, Psalm 74)

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Millions of spirits…

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For his fault amerced / of Heaven, and from eternal splendour flung / for his revolt - yet faithful how they stood, / their glory withered

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But under brows/

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Of dauntless courage, and considerate pride / waiting revenge

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Cruel his eye,

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But cast / signs of remorse and passion, to behold / the fellows of his crime, the followers rather

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He, above the rest […]

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Stood like a tower

Proverb 18,10: the name of the Lord is a fortified tower

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Through experience of this great event,/

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In arms not worse, in foresight much advanced, / we may with more successful hope resolve / to wage by for or guile eternal war

Confutatio; Satan’s speech starts with an “if”; undermines his rally cry
Force or guile - illusion of choice

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Chained on…

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The burning lake […] but that the will / and high permission of all-ruling Heaven

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The mind is its own place, …

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And in itself / can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven

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His ponderous shield, /

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Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, / behind him cast. The broad circumference / hung on on his shoulders like the moon

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I may assert …

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Eternal Providence, / and justify the ways of God to men

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Our labour must be…

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To pervert that end, / and out of good still to find means of evil

Lack of confirmation and confutatio at this point in Satan’s speech; Satan doesn’t accept another argument after B had spoken. Satan says he will resist even God’s forgiveness

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Round he throws

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His baleful eyes, / that witnessed huge affliction and dismay

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One great furnace flamed;

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Yet from those flames/no light but rather darkness visible

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Though in pain,/

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Vaunting aloud, but racked with deep despair

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But in his face/

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Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care/sat on his faded cheek

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His spear -

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To equal which the tallest / pine hewn on the Norwegian hill, to be the mast/ of some great Admiral, were but a wand

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He called so loud…

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That all the hollow deep/of Hell resounded

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Him the Almighty Power /

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Hurled headlong flaming […] with hideous ruin and combustion, down/ to bottomless perdition

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Our grand foe […]

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Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heaven

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The thunder,/

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Winged with red lightning and impetuous rage,/perhaps hath spent his shafts

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Oh how fallen!

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How changed/from him!

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Contend […]

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His utmost power with adverse power opposed/ in dubious battle on the plains of Heaven,/ and shook his throne

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The unconquerable will [...]
And courage never to submit or yield
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Princes,...
Potentates, warriors [...] awake, arise, or be forever fallen!
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Downcast and damp;
Yet [...] some glimpse of joy to have found their Chief
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Gently raised/
Their fainting courage, and dispelled their fears
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Mixed with...
Obdurate pride and steadfast hate
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Head uplift...
Above the wave [...] prone on the flood [...] lay floating
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Better to reign...
In Hell than serve in Heaven
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Our faithful friends,/
The associates and co-partners of our loss
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His wonted pride/
Soon recollecting, with high words, that bore/semblance of worth, nor substance
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I may assert Eternal Providence,/
And justify the ways of God to men
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In bulk as huge/
As whom the fables name of monstrous size [...] that sea beast/Leviathan, which God of all his works/created hugest
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By fraud or guile
Subtly altered from “force or guile”
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Who shall tempt...
With wandering feet/The dark, unbottomed, infinite abyss,/and through the palpable obscure find out/his uncouth way, or spread his airy flight,/upborne with indefatigable wings/over the vast abrupt
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Thrice threefold...
The gates; three folds were brass,/three iron, three of adamantine rock,/impenetrable
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None.
Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb [...] seemed [...] Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell,/ and shook a dreadful dart [...] Hell trembled as he strode
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Satan stood...
Unterrified, and like a comet burned,/ that fires the length of Ophiucus huge/ in th’arctic sky, and from his horrid hair/ shakes pestilence and war
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Treading the crude consistence,
Half on foot,/half flying [...] as when a gryphon through the wilderness, with winged course [...] The rhythm of the line is jarring and reminds us of Satan’s difficulties despite the heroic imagery
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Satan [...] with fresh alacrity and force renewed/
Springs upward, like a pyramid [...] when Ulysses on the larboard shunned/ Charybdis
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For whence/but from the author...
Of all ill, could spring/so deep a malice, to confound the race/of mankind in one root [...] to spite/ the great creator
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drew after him ...
the third part of Heaven’s sons [...] and they, outcast from God, are here condemned/ to waste eternal days in woe and pain?
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High on a throne of royal state, which far/
Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind,/ or where the gorgeous East with richest hand/showers on her kings barbaric Pearl and gold,/Satan exalted sat
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Me thou just right,
And the fixed laws of Heaven,/did first create your leader [...] achieved of merit
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Rose/the Monarch,
And prevented all reply [...] but they/dreaded no more th’adventure than his voice /forbidding
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Fluttering...
His pennons vain, plumb-down he drops/ten thousand fathom deep, and to this hour/Down had been falling, had not, by ill chance,/the strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud
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Thyself in me thy perfect...
Image viewing/becam’st enamoured; and such joy thou took’st/with me in secret that my womb conceived/a growing burden
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Satan “cannot escape...
The terms of the fiction he finds himself in” - John Carey
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“What we see in Satan...
Is the horrible co-existence of a subtle and incessant intellectual activity with an incapacity to understand anything” C.S. Lewis
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“Satan is Milton’s picture...
[...] of the awkward pressures we put on ourselves to interpret our own situation within the mind’s shifting circles of freedom and compulsion” - Kenneth Gross
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“If we are to admire...
Milton’s refusal to idolise the name of king [...] it is difficult not to admire much of what Satan says to the same purpose” William Flesch
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“The great figure of Satan ...
And its inexorable decline [...] is also a sermon on the strength of evil; because you see Satan created as he is, huge in the magnificence with which the first books surround him” - Balachandra Rajan
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Meanwhile...
The adversary of God and Man [...] The narrator undercuts Satan’s heroism with these words of caution.
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“There is not a great speech...
Of Satan’s that Milton is not at pains to correct, dampen down and neutralise” - A J Waldcock
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“Satan unavoidably reminds us...
Of Prometheus” - Walter Alexander Raleigh
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“Satan must believe [...]
That he can defy God, but his dry speeches of defiance become in the end merely another euphemism for ‘fulfilling the divine will’” - Jack Foley
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“By measuring...
Satan against heroic standards, we become conscious of the inadequacy and fragility of all the heroic virtues celebrated in literature” - Barbara Lewalski
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“The reader who falls...
Before the lures of Satanic rhetoric displays [...] the weakness of Adam and [fails] to avoid repeating [his] fall” - Stanley Fish

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