Quotes- Paradise Lost

Satan's attitude

"Bent on mans destruction"

"All goodness to me becomes bane" - archaic word meaning "deadly poison"

"Full of anguish driven"

"The serpent subtlest beast of all"

"In destroying"he finds "ease"

Consequence of the sin to nature

"The earth felt the wound"

"All was lost"

Eve eating the fruit feels

"Superior"

Sympathy for Adam eating fruit

"Fondly overcome with female charm"

Post Lapsarian feelings

Spiritual to PHYSICAL

Love to LUST

Pre-fall

Prelapsarian

Satan is driven by

"Hate, not love, not hope"

Consequences of revenge

"Revenge though sweet bitter ere long back on itself recoils"

Purpose of writing PL

"Justify the ways of God to man"

Adam is

"The patriarch of mankind"

Eve describes herself as

"The weaker sex"

Eve knows not to eat the fruit because

"God so commanded"

The fruit is. to Eve

"Alluring"

They could act as they wanted because

"God left free the will"

On seeing Eve, Satan became

"Stupidly good"

Satan's lie and deception of Eve to eat the fruit

(GOD) "cannot hurt ye"

Symbol Eve's loss of innocence

Adam drops the garland wreath for Eve

Nudity postlapsarian Adam and Eve

"Honour from about them, naked left. To guilty shame"

Eve presents Adam as weak

"Firm and fixed" (he shouldve been"

Adam describes downfall as

"Good lost"

Closing lines

"They hand in hand with solitary steps...."

"Through Eden took their solitary way"

Eve separating from her husband

"Her hand soft she withdrew"

Satan's inability to feel good

"The more I see pleasures around me, the more I feel torment within me"

Foreshadowing Eves fall

"Much failing hopeless Eve"

Eve seduced by the..

"Veil of fragrance"

Syntactic parallelism of Eve desire for more

"Still to dress, still to tend"

Miltons use of epithet over praising Eve

"Sole Eve" (later to parallel it with Satan's seduction)

Adam warns Eve but she ignores

"Malicious foe"

Misogynistic attitude of blaming women

"Evil" "Eve"

Semantic field fallen

"Burn" "inflaming" "contagious fire"

Postlapsarian Eve, epithet of God

"Our great forbidder"

Eve weakness and innocence, prelapsarian

"Into her heart too easy entrance won"

Eve getting lost in Satan's labyrinth of lies

"Amazed"

"Surging maze"

Snakes cunning devious nature

"Sly snake"

"Subtlest beast"

Eve representing mankind's mistakes, human nature

"Our credulous mother"

Desire temptation for the fruit

"Alluring fruit" "thirst" "pleasure"

Satan's thirst for revenge Reversed Syntax

"Stronger hate" "hate stronger"

Mournful assonance

"World of woe"

Adam protective authority

« Leave not the faithful side »

Eve's jealousy Post lapsarian

« Adam wedded to another Eve »

Post lapsarian feelings and environment

« dewy sleep »

« Désire inflaming he » (lust? Fire imagery?)

« In lust they burn »

Hand imagery

Adam's « slack hand »

Eve's « soft she withdrew »

Fruit before and after

« Fairest fruit ». VS. « Fallacious fruit »

Adam's first impression of Eve- Post Lapsarian

« Garland wreathed for Eve down dropt » Garland signifies Eve, and her fall, garland no longer queen « deflowered » loss of innocence.

« All faded roses shed » roses signifies Eve, rose symbolic of Love, the loss of love « faded », instead is lust.

Disconnection with God after Sin

« Heaven is high » spiritually distant from God, too far away to feel protected by God.

Adam role reversal

« Waiting desirous her return » he misses her presence, desire- common in women, his love selfless? Foolish?

Adams lack of masculinity

« Désires more her stay »

"Waiting desirous her return"

- desire and passion over reason? Dépendance on women? Weak? Overprotective?

Foreshadowing Eve's fall

«O much deceived, much failing, hapless eve"

"Despoiled of innocence"

Satan's seduction

"Sovereign mistress"

Eve's epithet

"Adventurous Eve"

"Our credulous mother"

"Hapless Eve"

"Sold Eve"

Associate Eve"

Hierarchy- Adam

"His better knowledge"

Both postlapsarian

"Eyes how opened, and their minds how darkened"

Satan "veil had shadowed"

They are both "void of innocence, of faith, of purity" - syntactic parallelism, repetition emphasis on the loss after the fall.

Arguments post Lapsarian Eve saying to Adam

"Adam severe!"

Adam postlapsarian views of women

"In women overtrusting " "the error now"

Satan male gaze

"He spies"