1/6/2024 0 Comments Paradise lost book 9 summary![]() With Adam's reluctant permission, Eve goes, assuring Adam that their proud foe would not seek her first, since she is the weaker one and he'd be ashamed to go after the easy target. Eve is surprised to see that Adam would doubt her "firmness" because of the foe, and, although Adam persists, Eve argues that they cannot go on dwelling happily if they are living in fear. Still, he warns Eve that their foe wants nothing more than to see them apart, since he would be hopeless to outwit them together. Adam replies that God made them "not to irksome toil, but to delight" Book 9, line 242, although he does concede that "solitude sometimes is best society, and short retirement urges sweet return." Book 9, lines 249-50. That way, she argues, they could get more done. Meanwhile, Eve is suggesting to Adam that they split up when doing their daily work. He explains, "only in destroying I find ease to my restless thoughts," Book 9, lines 129-30, stressing that with his intensity of ambition he'll stop at nothing for revenge. He doesn't want to live on earth or in heaven, though he wants to make others experience the same pain that ails him. Satan explains that the more pleasures he sees, the more torment he feels. He chooses the serpent since it is the most subtle animal he can find. Satan returns to earth as a mist, and searches for a creature to inhabit. Milton asks Urania for help, and returns to present-time action. Topic Tracking: Obedience & Disobedience 15 Milton informs the reader that he must "change these notes to tragic foul distrust, and breach disloyal on the part of man, revolt and disobedience." Book 9, lines 5-8.
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