AO1: Paradise Lost Bk10 Flashcards
GUILT
AO1: What quote shows A+ E deserved to fall due to their sinful ways? 15-16
“The penalties [sin] deserv’d to fall”
AO3: Justifying ways of God to man
AO4: DOM characters who sin (Card, Ferd, Bos) deserve punishment i.e death - just action
GUILT
AO1: What shows that the angels do not feel bad for God’s judgement as they believe he is right? 25
“Violated not their bliss”
AO3: Christine theology - God is omnibelevolent
AO5: “Something badly wrong with Milton’s God” - Empson (does not reflect traditional biblical God)
GUILT
AO1: How does God assemble angels ensuring they do not blame themselves? 34
“Assembl’d Angels”
AO3: First trope of epic in Bk 9+10 (assemblies)
CORRUPTION
AO1: What epitomises Satan’s sin as he crosses from hell? 39
“This Tempter cross’s the Gulf from Hell”
AO4: DOM seen as temptress towards A, Bos tempted by social mobility to murder
AO3: Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
AO5: ‘This poem shows how seductive sin can be’ (Fish)
REDEMPTION
AO1: How is Jesus a humble figure of God despite resplendence? 66
“Expressed and thus divinely answered mild”
AO4: DOM presented as redeeming exemplified by Ferd and Card who focus on power and position “plum trees / grow crooked” - Bos
AO5: DOM ‘female christ’
SUFFERING
AO1: How will God also suffer and A+E not suffer lightly? 75-6
“This obtain of right, that I may mitigate their doom on me derived”
AO3: personal v private justice
AO4: Themes of justice, punishment, mercy DOM bos “ The weakest arm is strong enough that strikes with the sword of justice”
AO5: “The God of Milton is always farther, a creator, a judge” (Voltaire)
SUFFERING
AO1: What describes the lack of God’s presence? 113
“despaire”
AO3: etymologically despaire = without father, lack of God’s presence
AO4: D chooses body natural > body politic - choosing herself over country - hierarchy like Gods at time
GUILT
AO1: How does Adam attempt to shift the blame onto Eve? 137-143
“This Woman / to be my help, gav’st me as they perfect gift/ so divine/ I could suspect no ill/ / shee gave me of the tree, and I did eate”
AO1: misogyny - referring to Eve as ‘The Woman’ could be catalyst of her ambition, categories typical of epics,
AO3: Milton’s own misogyny of women {Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce}, Armanism Vs Calvinism Adams fate predestined by Eve, Eve had the free will
AO4: Bosoloas misogyny, D “notorious strumpet” blamed for her sexual appetite causing her to fall
AO5: women’s desire during Renaissance seen as “monstrous” (Callaghan)
GUILT + DECEPTION
AO1: How does Eve admit fault for the fall? 162
“the serpent me beguiled and I did eat”
AO4: appetite DOM “ greedily she engorged”
AO3: Emphasis on women’s appetite in Jacobean + renaissance era - sexual implications
SUFFERING
AO1: An argument that women’s punishment is far more severe? 193
“children thou shalt bring in sorrow forth; and so they husbands will thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule”
AO3: Milton believed women were to appease husbands and children
AO4: Card and Ferd controlling D’s sexuality “you already know what man is”/ punishment is “justifying the ways of God to man”
REDEMPTION
AO1: God is coming back as their saviour? 209
“Judge and Saviour sent”
AO5: Felix Culpa (lucky fall) - no fall = no redemption
CORRUPTION
AO1: How does satan assume triumph and the positive view hell holds for him? 236
“Satan our Great Author thrives in other Worlds”
AO3: Dr. Faustus - positive view that S respectable enough to make a deal and believe the other end of bargain will be held up
AO4” “flattering sycophants” - almost sycophantic towards Satan
CORRUPTION
AO1: How do Sin and Death describe the bridge between earth and hell as permanent - sin and consequential death is now permanent? 303-4
“Immovable of this now fenceless world / Forfeit to Death”
AO3: Milton also believed opposite - that bridge WAS moveable - an opportunity for good AND bad
AO4: Italian court DOM everyone has sinned and therefore will die
CORRUPTION + DECEPTION
AO1: What is the image that Satan was previously an angel and cast out - highlighting S insecurities of loss of angel status? 327
“Satan in likeness of an angel bright”
AO3: Oliver Cromwell not a true king but took shape of one
AO4: MEn putting themselves on a pedestal when taking revenge i.e Bos seeing revenge as a noble duty
AO5: Satan has an insecurity about losing his father (Gregory)
DECEPTION
AO1: Ho is Eve seen as the weaker sex therefore easily seduced? 341
“he after Eve seduced:
AO3: Patriarchy - women’s weakness
Ao4: Ferd and Card often surpassing D because of their power as men
AO5: “Patriarchs of Patriarchs” critics’ interpretation of Milton
GUILT + CORRUPTION
AO1: How does Satan retreat from Eve when she has eaten the fruit? 341-8
“Unminded slunk […] terrified he fled”
Ao3: Bk10 anti-hero to Bk10 abject, unheroic - pathetic
Ao4: Animal imagery ‘bestial slime” vs ‘lycanthropia’ - how evil and abhorrent people become more animal-like and less human
AO3: Discussions of Renaissance Man - difference between man and creature
AMBITION + CORRUPTION
AO1: How does Satan embrace his antagonistic, petty nature? 387
“antagonist pf heavens almighty king”
AO3: S as machiavellian character
AO4: Ferd and Bos “I am your creature”
DECEPTION
AO1: What is the description of Satan as he sits on his throne in front of his assembly? 452
“False glitter”
AO4: Appearance Vs reality, Card dumb show swapping ecclesial garb for wars clothes (hiding his dark intention)
AO3: Charlies I tyranny using title as ‘glitter’ to assume higher connection with God - Miltons beliefs on a personal relationship with God ‘false glitter’ is monarchs
AMBITION
AO1: How does Satan address his congregation in hell? 460
“thrones, denominations, Princeton’s, virtues, powers”
AO3: traditional trope of epic - assemblies
DECEPTION
AO1: How does Satan brag of seduction - pretending to have seduced Adam? 485
“By fraud I have seduced from his creator”
AO3: females as the weaker sex
AO4: DOM no power in court due to gender
AO5: “female desire as monstrous abnormality” - links to ‘seduced’ (Callaghan)
SUFFERING + GUILT
AO1: How does Satans audience respond? 508-509
AO1: Hissing as if they have been turned into snakes - reflects ‘public scorn’ of typical villainous character
- links back to ‘bliss’ 503 peripeteia reversal of fate from greatest to worst
AO3: Miltons fear of ‘public scorn’ - he himself in prison after restoration
SUFFERING + GUILT
AO1: How does Adam relent that he knew of the punishment of eating the forbidden fruit therefore accept the consequences? 769
“I submit, his doom is fair”
AO3: ‘justifying the ways of God to man - punishment is fair
AO4: Bos seeking revenge on Aragonian brothers on behalf of Ant
SUFFERING
AO1: How does Adam realise his punishment is ultimately spiritual separation from God? 788
“But shall I die a living death”
AO3: Milton believe in personal relationship with God - that’s now destroyed
AO4: DOM punishment is death but the punishment isn’t death it is the torture prior
SUFFERING
AO1: How does Adam question whether death would be the end of his punishment? 798
“Deathless death?”
AO3: Christian view of purgatory, death doesn’t just end you wither suffer in hell or go to heaven
AO4: DOM questioning death
