Paradise Lost White Devil

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"I see pleasures about me, so much more I feel torment within me…For only in destroying I find ease,"

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Satan 119- Sympathy, conflicted nature (shown by caesurae, juxtaposition torment+destroying and ease.

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"The serpent sleeping, in whose mazy folds to hide me, and the dark intent I bring."

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Satan 161- rhyme highlights malcontent link Flamineo.

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"For solitude sometimes is best society, and short retirement urges sweet return."

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Adam 249- evidence Eve not blame. Disobeying God's commands. Justice and forbidding.

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"His violence thou fearst not, being such, as we, not capable of death or pain'

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Eve 282- Subordinate clauses Satan's influence+ Uncertainty. Irony- think independence but playing hands Satan. Context- Milton did not like how Charles I did not defend himself in trial saying only triable by gods. Stupidity of Eve.

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"hot hell that always in him burns,"

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Satan 467- alliteration- Satan internalised hell. Cannot escape its influence. Context Milton blind spoke words out loud to friends. Or in pain and misery. Victim? Sympathy?

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'human sense expressed'

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Eve 554- Bitter irony that Satan is as far from human as possible.

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'What may this mean? Language of man pronounced by tongue of brute'

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Eve 553- forbidding. Predicting future. Speaking tongues in revelations and corinthians.

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'Queen of the universe, do not believe those rigid threats of death'. 'empress'.

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Satan 684- lies, flaws, flattery, empress and queen of what?

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'ye shall not die: How should ye'

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Satan 685- empty words, empty words!

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'By the Threatener?'

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Satan 688- Reverence or fear and loathing? Context not allowed to mention God. Here mentioning him as bad. Justice imminent here.

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'Earth felt the wound'

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Nature finally awakens- ie paganism through personification of nature.

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'nature from her seat sighing'

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Nature like a disappointed mother. Or alternatively relief to be free to help couple have kids as is true nature.

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'works gave signs of woe'

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inversion of 'work' mentioned earlier on- the fruit of her work brings woe, only woe. (also anaphora. Fatalist.

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'Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe'

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Eve- grim thought- deluded like Satan. Only woe. Feminist message however, standing up herself. critic. Argue against. context: marriage vows. Binding herself to her man.

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'all the faded roses shed'

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Symbol of virginity and/or all life withering away.

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Satan aspires against tyranny, like Milton

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However, like Cromwell, Satan deceives everyone and refuses to share his power.

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Milton championed the freedom of the individual

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Because he was betrayed by traditional institutions, eg church, monarchy. Believed in right to make own decisions+ act independently

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17th Century ideas marriage

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Relationship between husband and wife mirrored relationship king and peasant and so God and humanity

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'A secondary epic'

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C.S. Lewis

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'A Turkish contempt for females'

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Dr. Samuel Johnson

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'Secretly of the devil's party without knowing it

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William Blake

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'Satan speaks for freedom, but from an autocratic viewpoint'

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Ianucci

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'Alienation from God naturally to dislike his gifts'

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Lovelock

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“turn your eyes upon this plague, the most corrupt of women”

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TWD. Lawyer situational irony. Corrupt lawyer accusing Vitt of corruption. Connotations 'plague' she is contagious and infects society like a cancer. Personification of plague as her.

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'What goodly fruit she seems'

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Boom. PLL comparison. To be corrupted/ eaten. Preordaining future. Bitter dramatic irony corrupt pope preordaining the story of Adam and Eve. 'seems' doubt.

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'Were there a second paradise to lose this devil would betray it'

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Pot calling the kettle black. Using religion to unjustly punish Vitt.

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“You know what whore is: next the devil, Adult’ry, enters the devil, Murder”

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Reference to Dante's steps to hell. Slippery slope argument much like Satan.

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‘a rape! You have ravished justice, forced her to do your pleasure”

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Vittoria egoistic. Believes she is the personification of justice. Shows how she's just as flawed as other characters.

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“He took the crucifix between his hands, and broke a limb off”

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Marcello about Flam A5S2 Flam equivalent to Satan. Symbolic of Italian society. Romantic yet corrupt.

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Jacobean dreams

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Sino fue profético de la situación de hoy.

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Machiavellian villain

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From The Prince. Corrupt person who gets what they want without morals or caring.

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'Life, as it appears to Webster, is a moral chaos'

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Travis Bogard

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Justice

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The whole nature of Jacobean court was based on back-stabbing, deceit and double-dealing (reflects the Rome Courts presented in WD

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'Tis a brave thing for a man to sit by himself... You my Lord, in the saddle'

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Flamineo gloating, like Satan sadist. Corruption turns hierarchical structure upside down. Ordering around evokes executioner.

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'The duke said he will give you pension'

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Flam-> Fran money makes it all better.

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Sir, I did love Brachiano's duchess dearly,Or rather I pursued her with hot lust,

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Flam. Classic. Innocence-> experience. Juxtaposition. Little humour.