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Paradise Lost Quotes Flashcards

1
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God cannot hurt ye and be just…

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not just, not god

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Book 4 quote that describes Satan whispering to Eve, prerequisite to fall in Book 9

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“him there found, squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve”

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Quote from Book 9 which emphasises the importance of Milton’s epic (hint - Cicero)

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“some orators renowned in Athens or free Rome”

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Book 9 quote showing Eves female weakness to Satan’s courtly rhetoric

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“into her heart too easy entrance won”

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Quotes for sexualisation of the fruit in Book 9

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“gorged” “she plucked she ate” “groaned”

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Quote from book 10 which demonstrates Milton’s suspicion of the monarchy (could link to corrupt court in DOM)

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“false glitter”

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Quote from book 1 that could support argument that Milton was a feminist

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“he it was whose guile stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived the mother of man kind”

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Quote from Book 9 which is almost soliloquy like - demonstrates Satan’s innermost fears.

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“now improved in mediated fraud and malice, is bent on man’s destruction”

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Quote from Book 9 to show Satan as a malcontent (link to Bosola)

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“If I could joy in aught sweet interchain of hill and valley, rivers, woods and plain, no land a sea and shores with forest crown”

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Quote from Book 9 that shows Satan as an Antagonist - could form parallels with Iago in Othello

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“Only in destroying I find ease to my relentless thoughts”

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Quote from Book 9 which demonstrates Satan’s Metamorphosis

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“standing abstracted from his own evil”

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Quote from Book 9 encompassing femininity and female power

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“angelic but more soft and feminine her grateful innocence, her every air of gesture overawed his malice”

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Book 9 Oxymoronic quote that shows the impact of Eve’s beauty on Satan

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“stupidly good”

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Fantasie that they feel divinitie within them

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breeding wings

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15
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Ye shall be as gods

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knowing both good and evil

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16
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began to rise high passions, anger, hate,

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mistrust, suspicion, discord

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17
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made intricate

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seem straight

18
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forbids us

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to be wise

19
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His final sentence chose fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud in whom

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to enter his dark suggestions hide from sharpest sight

20
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and me with thee hath ruined for with thee certain my resolution is

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to die

21
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also taste then

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equal lot may join us

22
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naked thus of honor void, of

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innocence, of faith, of puritie

23
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o much decieved, much failing,

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hapless eve

24
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Language of man pronounced by tongue of brute…

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…..I thought denied to beasts….created mute to all articulate sounds

25
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He ended, end his words replete with guile

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into her heart too easy entrance won

26
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Greedily she engorged without restraint and knew not eating death

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satiate at length and heightened as with wine

27
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Carnal desire inflaming, he on Eve began to cast a lascivious eyes

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she him as wantonly repaid: in lust they burn

28
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Look on me! me who have touched and tasted yet both live

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and live more perfect have attained than fate meant me, by venturing higher than my lot

29
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but fondly

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overcome with female charm

30
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our reason is

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our law

31
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Daughter of God and man, immortal Eve, for such though art

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from sin and blame entire

32
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our great

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forbidder

33
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so good, so fit, so acceptable, so divine

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that from her hand i could suspect no ill

34
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was she thy god? that her thou didst obey

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before his voice?

35
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The serpent me beguiled

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and I did eat

36
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vehement

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despair

37
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was i never to have parted from thy side? …..

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….a liveless rib

38
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defaced, deflowered, and now

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to death devote

39
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and render me more equal, and perhaps not a thing undesireable,

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sometime superior, for when inferior, who is free?

40
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Thats the greatest torture souls feel in hell:

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in hell they must live and cannot die

41
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God - No Decree of mine
Concurring to necessitate his Fall,
Or touch with lightest moment of impulse

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His free Will, to her own inclining left
In even scale

42
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For now all were transformed alike

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to serpents all, as acessories to his bold riot

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