Paradise Lost Book IX

‘‘in rising mist’’

Satan travelling to heaven, manipulates the GCB

‘‘cautious of day’’

he goes round and round whereas the Son can go straight down

‘‘serpent subtlest beast of all the field’’

Satan choosing to go into the serpent, choosing carefully shows his cunning

‘thus wrapped in mist/ of midnight vapour glide obscure’’

trying to sneak past heaven’s guards

‘‘in at his grassy mouth/the Devil entered’’

Satan going into the snake

‘‘from dust: spite then with spite is best repaid’’

he is going to get revenge on God

‘‘In Eden on the humid flow’rs’’

Catholicism & incense, miasma, divinity of God & his creations

‘‘And Eve first to her husband began’’

Eve speaks first showing her power, gives voice and reason to a character without justification in Genesis

‘‘for not to irksome toil, but to delight’’

Eve persuading Adam to work alone

‘‘associate sole to me beyond/compare

idolises her, Catholicism

‘‘conjugal love’’

having sex for functionality rather than lust

‘‘angelic, but more soft and feminine/ her graceful innocence’’

Satan watching Eve before he goes to mislead her

‘‘licked the ground whereon she trod’’

Satan idolises Eve also

‘‘sov’reign of creatures, universal dame’’

Satan flatters Eve

‘‘and raised unite…with me best witness of thy virtue tried’’

Adam says Eve will be safer with him because he is stronger with her

‘‘stupidly good; of enmity disarmed’’

Satan ad he approaches Eve to tempt her

‘‘Adam in his care and matrimonial love’’

Adam loves Eve too much to see reason

‘‘how are we happy, still in fear of harm?’’

Eve persuading Adam. argues how are love and faith strong if they cannot be tested

‘‘all her original brightness… less archangel ruined and the excess/of glory obscured”

Satan is still beautiful

“dauntless courage…waiting revenge”

Satan

‘‘in lust they burn’’

after the fall

‘‘divine displeasure for her sake or death’’

after the fall

‘‘mutual accusation…fruitless hours’’

last few lines

‘‘greedily she engorged without restraint’’

‘‘heightened as with wine’’

‘‘pleasingly’’

eve after eating the fruit