7 Matching Annotations
  1. Oct 2018
    1. Self-tempted, self-deprav'd

      Compare to the earlier "self-rais'd" description offered by the fallen angels in Hell for their eventual future triumph. God has so recently championed the need to autonomy in his worshippers and yet scathingly rejects the fallen angels for self-determining.

    1. This place our dungeon, not our safe retreat

      A parallel can be drawn here to the way marginalised groups sometimes seek to reclaim their marginalisation, trying to make a point of pride out of surviving their oppression, sometimes to the point of ceasing to acknowledge the extent and cruelty of the oppression.

  2. Sep 2018
    1. what hope

      I noted this in the last book as well -- we're given an assertion that Hell is a wholly hopeless place, and yet the fallen angels are all such driven, dynamic personalities that the word appears again and again even so.

    2. with that care lost Went all his fear

      The variety of ways that the different fallen angels experience misery does more to mark them out as memorable than any of their other offered features.