Paradise Lost Book X

“deserved to fall”

God: beginning of the book

“love was not in their looks”

Adam and Eve when found by the Son

“my other self, the partner of my life”

Adam about Eve

“Was she thy God…resign thy manhood”

Son to Adam

“for dust thou art and shalt to dust return”

God

“Upon thy belly grovelling…dust shalt eat

God

“mortal change on earth”

“when a flock of ravenous fowl”

“lured with the scent of living carcasses designed”

Death describing how they’re gonna ruin earth

“Satan in likeness of an angel bright”

Satan was a fallen angel

“dismal universal hiss the sound of public scorn”

“A monstrous serpent”

“But hiss for hiss returned with forkéd tongue”

Book IX reference “spite then with spite is best repaid”

Satan’s return to pandemonium

‘‘vapour and mist’’

changing conditions on Earth

‘‘devoured each other’’

creatures on earth

‘‘hide me from the face of God’’

Adam’s lament

‘‘pains only in childbirth’’

adam to eve

‘‘in dust our final rest and native home’’

adam end of book x

‘‘both confessed humbly their faults’’

‘‘sorrow unfeigned and humiliation meek’’

end of book x

‘‘frailty and infirmer sex’’

adam

‘‘thy love the sole contentment of my heart’’

adam end of book x

eve was ‘‘submissive in distress’’

end of book x

‘‘from a cloud his fulgent head’’

satan end of book x after punishment

‘‘fair defect of nature’’

adam to eve after his lament

‘‘can he make deathless death’’

adam’s lament except he is questioning god

‘‘if such pleasure be in things forbidden to us…one tree had been forbidden ten’’

adam wishes more was forbidden if forbidden is this good

‘‘to taste the fatal fruit was known in heav’n’’

book x narrator

‘‘thy love not thy subjection’’

son of god says adam shouldn’t worship eve but love her

‘‘he over thee shall rule’’

son of god giving out punishment book x

‘‘go whither fate and inclination strong leads thee’’

death - he and sin follow their instincts without direction - parallel?

‘‘smooth easy inoffensive down to Hell’’

the bridge sin and death build

‘‘scalding thirst and hunger fierce’’

satan + co

‘‘so oft they fell into the same illusion, not as man, whom they triumphed once lapsed’’

punishment of satan’s followers

‘‘his looks, words, actions all infect’’

sin says for death to not spare man

‘‘eternal famine’’

death = gluttony

‘‘made pure to sanctity that shall receive no stain’’

god telling the son to restore order

‘‘did i request thee maker from my clay to mould me man’’

i didnt ask to be born ahh adam

‘‘why should all mankind for one man’s fault thus guiltless be condemned’’

adam’s lament