Paradise Lost Books 9 & 10 (OCR A Level English Literature): Flashcards
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Fill in the gap: "for ＿＿＿＿＿ who is free?"
Eve, Book 9
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Fill in the gap: "for ＿＿＿＿＿ who is free?"
Eve, Book 9
Answer: "for inferior who is free?"
Fill in the gap: "Earth felt the ＿＿＿＿＿, and Nature from her seat / Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe"
Book 9
Answer: "Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat / Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe"
Fill in the gap: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my ＿＿＿＿＿ / To mould me Man"
Adam, Book 10
Answer: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my Clay / To mould me Man"
Fill in the gap: "nothing lovelier can be found / In ＿＿＿＿＿, then to studie houshold good"
Adam, Book 9
Answer: "nothing lovelier can be found / In Woman, then to studie houshold good"
Key quote: "her rash hand in evil hour / Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat"
Book 9
Analysis
The two short verbs make the Fall happen in a single moment. Calling her hand "rash" places the blame on impulse rather than on reasoned choice.
Key quote: "Foul distrust, and breach / Disloyal on the part of Man, revolt, / And disobedience"
Book 9
Analysis
The abstract nouns pile up so the charge against Adam grows heavier with each one. The listing makes his disobedience sound like a series of separate crimes.
Key quote: "That love sincere, and reverence in my heart / I bear thee, and unweeting have offended"
Eve, Book 9
Analysis
Eve pleads that she acted without knowing, which is not the same as being innocent. She offers her love for Adam as the reason he should forgive her sin.
Key quote: "soon his heart relented / Towards her, his life so late and sole delight"
Book 10
Analysis
Adam softens towards Eve out of pity rather than because she has been excused. Reconciliation in the poem comes from feeling, not from judgement.
Key quote: "But God left free the Will, for what obeyes / Reason, is free"
Book 9
Analysis
Milton defines free will as the choice to follow reason. Freedom therefore means obedience to what is right, not the absence of rules.
Key quote: "Sole Eve, Associate sole, to me beyond / Compare above all living Creatures deare"
Adam, Book 9
Analysis
Repeating "sole" makes Eve both unique and solitary. The praise lifts her above every other creature, yet still defines her by her relationship to Adam, so the hierarchy stays in place.
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