Paradise Lost quotes

How does Eve suggest Adam and her work?

Let us divide our labours

How does Eve bring up that they should work separately?

Thou therefore now advise

How is the passage to hell described?

Smooth, easy, inoffensive / wide open and unguarded

How does Adam addresses Eve after she suggests to split up?

Sole Eve, associate Eve

What about Earth causes torment within Satan?

The more I see pleasures around me, so much more I feel torment within me

What is the insult Adam uses against Eve after they fall?

O, Woman

How is Eve described whilst being away from Adam?

Fairest, unsupported flower.

What does Satan describe Eve's body when he first sees her?

heavenly form

How is Eve described in wanting to do work herself?

Adventurous

How is Adam’s physicality described?

Heroic built

In what state did Adam eat the apple?

Not decieved

What is Satan bent on doing?

Bent on Man’s Destruction

What does Satan say in Book 1 about his view on heaven and hell?

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven

What gives Satan ease to his relentless thoughts?

Only in destroying I find ease to my relentless thoughts

What is Satan’s mental state/mind described as?

Labyrinth

What does Satan become when he sees Eve for the first time?

Stupidly good

What is Satan’s relationship with humanity?

Enemy of mankind

What does God turn Satan into?

A monstrous serpent

How does Satan describe the snake?

Subtlest beast of all the field

How is the snake described post-fall?

Instrument of mischief

What sort of love do prelapsarian Adam and Eve share?

Matrimonial love

What kind of love do postlapsarian Adam and Eve share?

Carnal desire

How does Eve describe God after eating the apple?

Great Forbidder

How is God described whilst Sin and Death cause discord in Earth?

All-seeing

What does Satan do to flatter Eve?

Lick the ground whereon she trod

What is Eve worried will happen with Adam if she dies?

Wedded another Eve

What does Adam feel about if Eve were to die?

To lose thee would be to lose myself

How does Eve see Adam’s decision with eating the apple/falling with her?

A trial of love

What is Eve’s eating of the apple described as?

The root of all our woe

What happened when Eve ate the apple?

All was lost

What did Eve not realise she was doing when eating the apple?

Knew not eating death

How did the Earth react to Adam eating the apple?

Earth trembled and Nature sighed

What sin is the eating of the apple?

Mortal sin Original

How are Adam and Eve described after they become aware of their sin?

shamed, naked, miserable

How are Adam and Eve considered once they ate the apple?

Fallen

What does the applause of the fallen angels turn into?

A universal hiss

How is Adam and Eve’s disobedience described as?

The folly of man

Who did Satan intend to harm?

The whole included race, his purposed prey

What does Adam describe their punishment as?

Curse

Why is it unfair the rest of humanity are condemned?

All mankind for one man’s fault

Why does Eve eat the apple?

Render me more equal

Why does Adam eat the apple?

Overcome with female charm

What are women doomed to be due to Eve’s transgression?

The infirmer sex

What is Adam accused of doing for not being more authoritative with Eve?

Resign thy manhood

What is Adam’s hand described as when he eats the apple?

Liberal hand

What has God given to humans to help protect themselves?

Free will armed

What do Satans words seem like to Eve?

Persuasive words, impregnated with reason

Can anything separate Sin and Death?

no power can separate

How are humans described once they become mortal?

Living carcasses

What joins Earth and Hell

Bridge

How does Satan describe becoming a snake?

Foul descent

Why does Satan say God doesn’t allow Adam and Eve to eat the apple?

to keep them “low and ignorant”

What does Satan say will happen if Eve eats the apple?

Shall be known as Gods

What word did Milton create to describe hell?

Pandemonium