![]() ![]() physiology contributes to flawed reason – body and soul together.ħ45-779 Eve soliloquises: a) it’s made the serpent speak b) it’s obviously valuable or else why be banned? c) a prohibition against knowledge binds not d) the serpent has not died e) she trusts the serpent as bringing good news to man. Meanwhile, g) who says the gods made earth? Whereas everything good seems to come from the earth h) how can your knowledge hurt him? I) how can eating it do any harm against His will if He is omnipotent? ħ33-744 plus lunchtime draws on and Eve is hungry i.e. Not allowed to eat fruit?Ħ64-678 Satan then rises up like an ancient orator (another epic simile)Ħ79-732 Satan gives reasons to eat the fruit: a) it has allowed a beast to speak b) he is not dead, as threatened c) God won’t punish the appetite for knowledge of good and evil, that would itself by unjust d) it was only forbidden to keep you in awe e) whereas if you taste you could become gods f) if she will die it will be the human dies to become a god. Flattery.Ħ31-646 Satan leads Eve to the tree and is compared to ignis fatuus in another epic simile.Ħ47-654 Eve tells the snake she is forbidden to touch the tree.Ħ55-58 Satan pretends surprise. How come?ĥ67-612 Satan says he ate of the fruit of the tree and a) understood the universe and b) could talk and c) realised Eve was the divinest thing in the garden. Where Satan is are heroic similies giving variety and power to the verse (may be a tactic of Milton’s to associate paganism, and the fallen simile form itself, with Satan – but makes for greater dynamism, variety).ĥ49-566 Eve wonders that the snake can speak. ![]() Notable that he has 2 epic similes in these 30 lines. Vain confidence.Ĥ12-72 Satan is waiting amid the green delights of Eden and when he sees Eve is momentarily transported by her beauty but hate and envy return.Ĥ73-493 Satan’s second soliloquy of hate, envy, revenge.Ĥ94-531 Satan sidles up as a magnificent tho sycophantic snake. She can’t believe the foe will attack the weaker – vain confidence!ģ85-411 Eve goes forward beautiful and confident as a dryad from Greek myth. But if she thinks ‘trial unsought may find us both securer’, Go.ģ76-384 Eve insists on the last word. ![]() Thus it follows they will be less likely to err if there’s 2 of them together. these virtues only mean something if tested (cf the Areopagitica) c) are you really saying God left us in such an imperfect state?ģ42-375 Adam replies that the fault is not in Eden which is perfect it is in themselves whose Reason is free, thus continually liable to err. Descends through the River Tigris which appears as a fountain at the foot of the Tree of Life.ĩ9-178 Satan’s 1st soliloquy: bemoaning how low he has fallen, seeking disguise in a suitable beast.ġ79-191 Satan slips into the mouth of the serpent.ġ92-204 Morning wakes Adam and Eve who pray to God.Ģ05-225 Eve suggests they labour apart in the garden since a) everything keeps growing faster than they can train it b) if in sight of each other they keep interrupting each other.Ģ26-269 Adam replies: a) God hasn’t strictly assigned them to do everything and not exchange smiles and words b) God made us for delight, after all c) soon little hands will help us d) it’s true separation leads to happy reunion but e) Adam warns of the devil lurking somewhere: Eve should stay with him.Ģ70-289 Eve is hurt that Adam thinks that she can be so easily beguiled.Ģ90-317 Adam replies if the Devil was strong enough to tempt angels he can tempt them both: best to stay together.ģ18-341 Eve argues that a) if they’re so insecure Eden is no longer Eden b) what is faith, love, virtue, ‘unassayed?’ i.e. Of stern Achilles on his Foe pursu’d Īnd dictates to me slumb’ring, or inspiresĤ8-98 Satan returns to Paradise after circling the globe for a week avoiding sight of the sun from where Uriel spotted him in Book IV. That brought into this World a world of woe, Those Notes to Tragic foul distrust, and breachĪnger and just rebuke, and judgement giv’n, Venial discourse unblam’d: I now must change With Man, as with his Friend, familiar us’d ![]() Synopsis of Paradise Lost, Book 9 (1,189 lines)ġ-47 semi-invocation: Milton describes his subject matter as fitter than Greek or medieval legend introduces the concept of ‘answerable style’ and describes the way the poetry comes to him at night ‘Easy my unpremeditated verse.’ ![]()
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