Book 10, Paradise Lost
The Son goes to Eden & acts all, "Hey, Adam - where ya hidin'?" To which Adam comes out in his fig-leaf outfit & confesses what's happened. I think it's a little disingenuous of the Son to act like *he doesn't know what happened* but I figure he's hoping that Adam will confess & feel bad (which he does).
Meanwhile, Sin & Death build a long road through Chaos, between Earth & Hell (lines 282-288):Then both from out Hell-gates, into the waste
Wide anarchy of Chaos, damp and dark,
Flew diverse; and with power (their power was great)
Hovering upon the waters, what they met
Solid or slimy, as in raging sea
Tost up and down, together crouded drove,
From each side shoaling towards the mouth of Hell;
Then Satan goes back in triumph to Hell, sits on his golden throne in Pandemonium, & gives his big speech (485-403):Him by fraud I have seduced
From his Creator; and, the more to encrease
Your wonder, with an apple; he, thereat
Offended, worth your laughter! hath given up
Both his beloved Man, and all his world,
To Sin and Death a prey, and so to us,
....
True is, me also he hath judged, or rather
Me not, but the brute serpent in whose shape
Man I deceived: that which to me belongs,
Is enmity which he will put between
Me and mankind; I am to bruise his heel;
His seed, when is not set, shall bruise my head:
....
Ye have the account
Of my performance: What remains, ye Gods,
But up, and enter now into full bliss?
No cheers, just hissing. B/c we're greeted by the last, disgusting image for Satan & his followers in hell. All of Satan's guys have turned into snakes (which he does, too). Then, he & they become this big, rolling, writhing mass of snakes over to another Tree of Knowledge (lines 558-566):Though to delude them sent, could not abstain;
But on they rolled in heaps, and, up the trees
Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks
That curled Megaera: greedily they plucked
The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew
Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed;
This more delusive, not the touch, but taste
Deceived; they, fondly thinking to allay
Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit
Chewed bitter ashes
And, as this is hell, they do it again... and again... and... well, you get the idea.
Meanwhile, Sin & Death build a long road through Chaos, between Earth & Hell (lines 282-288):Then both from out Hell-gates, into the waste
Wide anarchy of Chaos, damp and dark,
Flew diverse; and with power (their power was great)
Hovering upon the waters, what they met
Solid or slimy, as in raging sea
Tost up and down, together crouded drove,
From each side shoaling towards the mouth of Hell;
Then Satan goes back in triumph to Hell, sits on his golden throne in Pandemonium, & gives his big speech (485-403):Him by fraud I have seduced
From his Creator; and, the more to encrease
Your wonder, with an apple; he, thereat
Offended, worth your laughter! hath given up
Both his beloved Man, and all his world,
To Sin and Death a prey, and so to us,
....
True is, me also he hath judged, or rather
Me not, but the brute serpent in whose shape
Man I deceived: that which to me belongs,
Is enmity which he will put between
Me and mankind; I am to bruise his heel;
His seed, when is not set, shall bruise my head:
....
Ye have the account
Of my performance: What remains, ye Gods,
But up, and enter now into full bliss?
No cheers, just hissing. B/c we're greeted by the last, disgusting image for Satan & his followers in hell. All of Satan's guys have turned into snakes (which he does, too). Then, he & they become this big, rolling, writhing mass of snakes over to another Tree of Knowledge (lines 558-566):Though to delude them sent, could not abstain;
But on they rolled in heaps, and, up the trees
Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks
That curled Megaera: greedily they plucked
The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew
Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed;
This more delusive, not the touch, but taste
Deceived; they, fondly thinking to allay
Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit
Chewed bitter ashes
And, as this is hell, they do it again... and again... and... well, you get the idea.