Paradise Lost quotes for exam

“And justify the ways of God to men”

theodicy and divine justice (1)

“I formed them free, and free they must remain.”

theodicy and divine justice (2)

“Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.”

theodicy and divine justice (3)

“Better to reign in H-ll, than serve in Heav’n.”

satan, pride, and self-reflection (1)

“The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heav’n of H-ll, a Hell of Heav’n.”

satan, pride, and self-reflection (2)

“Myself am Hell; and in the lowest deep / A lower deep still threatening to devour me opens wide.”

satan, pride, and self-reflection (3)

“God made thee perfect, not immutable.”

obedience, knowledge and temptation (1)

“Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless.”

obedience, knowledge and temptation (2)

“To be weak is miserable, / Doing or suffering.”

obedience, knowledge and temptation (3)

“Among unequals what society / Can sort, what harmony or true delight?”

gender, hierarchy, relationship (1)

“For contemplation he and valour formed, / For softness she and sweet attractive grace.”

gender, hierarchy, relationship (2)

“He for God only, she for God in him.”

gender, hierarchy, relationship (3)

“We are one, one flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.”

love, marriage, the fall (1)

“Adam, the goodliest man of men since born / His sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve.”

love, marriage, the fall (2)

“Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon.”

repentance, providence, hope (1)