Satan and Krogstad
THEMES - Rebellion, deception, freedom
1) SATAN
- “The sun was sunk" "dark suggestions hide" "involved in rising mist"
"By stealth found unsuspected way." - deception
- ""the more I see pleasures about me, so much more I feel torment
within me, as from the hateful siege" - rebellion
- "Spirited sly snake" – deception
- "With Heav'nly spoils... man he made"
- "Spite then with spite is best repaid"
- "would God incense his ire for such a petty trespass, and not praise
rather your dauntless virtue"
- “Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
KROGSTAD
- "you will be so good as to use your influence on my behalf."
- “If necessary, I am prepared to fight for my small post in the bank as if
I were fighting for my life."
- “I must try and win back as much respect as I can in the town."
- "But I can assure you that my one false step, which lost me all my
reputation, was nothing more or nothing worse than what you have
done."
- “Look at me now --I am a shipwrecked man clinging to a bit of
wreckage."
- “He will do it, I know him. He will do it without so much as a whimper”
- “He’s crippled all right; morally twisted.”
- “But I tell you this. If I get thrown into the gutter for a second time, I
shall take you with me.”
- “I am not so heartless that I would necessarily want to condemn a man
for a single mistake like that.”
- “just think how a man with a thing like that on his conscience will
always be having to lie and cheat and dissemble; he can never drop
the mask, not even with his own wife and children.”
2) SATAN CRITIC QUOTES
- 'Milton's Devil as a moral being is as far superior to his God” - Percy
Bysshe Shelley
- 'Believes Satan is 'the hero of Paradise Lost' - Percy Bysshe Shelley
- “Milton believes Satan is 'English Literature's first terrorist” - John Carey
- “Nothing can exceed the energy and magnificence of the character of
Satan as expressed in Paradise Lost.'” - Percy Bysshe Shelley
- '[Milton] was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.' -
William Blake
KROGSTAD CRITIC QUOTES
- 'Krogstad is a mere pawn of the plot' - Eric Bentley
- Krogstad has been rejected by the society he wants to join...” –
Stephen Unwin
THEMES - Rebellion, deception, freedom
1) SATAN
- “The sun was sunk" "dark suggestions hide" "involved in rising mist"
"By stealth found unsuspected way." - deception
- ""the more I see pleasures about me, so much more I feel torment
within me, as from the hateful siege" - rebellion
- "Spirited sly snake" – deception
- "With Heav'nly spoils... man he made"
- "Spite then with spite is best repaid"
- "would God incense his ire for such a petty trespass, and not praise
rather your dauntless virtue"
- “Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
KROGSTAD
- "you will be so good as to use your influence on my behalf."
- “If necessary, I am prepared to fight for my small post in the bank as if
I were fighting for my life."
- “I must try and win back as much respect as I can in the town."
- "But I can assure you that my one false step, which lost me all my
reputation, was nothing more or nothing worse than what you have
done."
- “Look at me now --I am a shipwrecked man clinging to a bit of
wreckage."
- “He will do it, I know him. He will do it without so much as a whimper”
- “He’s crippled all right; morally twisted.”
- “But I tell you this. If I get thrown into the gutter for a second time, I
shall take you with me.”
- “I am not so heartless that I would necessarily want to condemn a man
for a single mistake like that.”
- “just think how a man with a thing like that on his conscience will
always be having to lie and cheat and dissemble; he can never drop
the mask, not even with his own wife and children.”
2) SATAN CRITIC QUOTES
- 'Milton's Devil as a moral being is as far superior to his God” - Percy
Bysshe Shelley
- 'Believes Satan is 'the hero of Paradise Lost' - Percy Bysshe Shelley
- “Milton believes Satan is 'English Literature's first terrorist” - John Carey
- “Nothing can exceed the energy and magnificence of the character of
Satan as expressed in Paradise Lost.'” - Percy Bysshe Shelley
- '[Milton] was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.' -
William Blake
KROGSTAD CRITIC QUOTES
- 'Krogstad is a mere pawn of the plot' - Eric Bentley
- Krogstad has been rejected by the society he wants to join...” –
Stephen Unwin
