Paradise Lost and Volpone: Quotes by theme

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FLATTERY: Paradise Lost

'Queen of the Universe' 'Sovereign mistress' 'Goddess humane' - Satan to Eve

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FLATTERY: Volpone

'behold What thou art queen of' - Volpone to Celia

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DECEPTION: Paradise Lost

'Spirited sly snake' + 'Made intricate seem straight'

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DECEPTION: Volpone

'You shall live/ Still to delude these harpies' - Mosca to Volpone

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POWER: Paradise Lost

'Render Me More Equal' - Eve

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POWER: Volpone

'Yield, or I'll force thee.' - Volpone

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LOVE: Paradise Lost

'to lose thee were to lose myself' - Adam

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LOVE: Volpone

'show yourself obedient, and a wife.' - Corvino

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LUST: Paradise Lost

'Eve, whose Eye darted contagious Fire.'

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LUST: Volpone

'ambitious fire' - Lust for Celia

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DESIRE: Paradise Lost

'Her graceful innocence' - Satan on Eve

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DESIRE: Volpone

'lovely as your gold!' - Mosca on Celia

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WRONGDOING: Paradise Lost

'only in destroying I find ease' - Satan

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WRONGDOING: Volpone

'I glory more in the cunning purchase of my wealth' - Volpone

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INNOCENCE: Paradise Lost

'Their Eyes how open’d, and their minds how darken’d'

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INNOCENCE: Volpone

'once lost, I have naught to lose' - Celia

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PARASITISM: Paradise Lost

'The serpent sleeping, in whose mazy folds to hide me,' - Satan

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PARASITISM: Volpone

‘Almost All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites’ - Mosca

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WOMEN: Paradise Lost

'In women over-trusting, lets her will rule'

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WOMEN: Volpone

'I am your martyr'

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GREED: Paradise Lost

'Ye shall be as Gods' - Satan to Eve

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GREED: Volpone

'To look upon their kindness, and take more'

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EVIL: Paradise Lost

'the dark intent I bring' - Satan

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EVIL: Volpone

'that knave Mosca hath been the instrument of all.' - Voltore

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Card 2

Front

'behold What thou art queen of' - Volpone to Celia

Back

FLATTERY: Volpone

Card 3

Front

'Spirited sly snake' + 'Made intricate seem straight'

Back

Card 4

Front

'You shall live/ Still to delude these harpies' - Mosca to Volpone

Back

Card 5

Front

'Render Me More Equal' - Eve

Back

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Paradise Lost and Volpone: Quotes by theme