English 1022E Lecture Notes - Ventriloquism, 2 On, Aeneid
16 Nov 2011
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Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall. (the greatest comma in literature) Then suggests one thing falling after another, logic. What fear we then you have everything to fear, you have nothing on your side. He conceives god in terms of violence and pain. Something tough and uncompromising about this character, almost hyper masculine. What a great choice of satan"s to acknowledge moloch first. The fallen angels are all cowards; they don"t want to start another war. No one wants to experience the pain and torture they are currently experiencing. Then belial comes in, who is a professor. His speech his twice as long as molochs. His speech is full of conditionals and alternatives like seem". He"s described as too cowardly to fight, and too lazy to run. When he speaks he speaks like any professor in point form (1, 2, 3) at l. 121-129 he says first, what revenge? there is no second.
