AO4

Question 1

English monarchy

Answer 1

Charles I 17th century

Question 2

Puritans on eloquence

Answer 2

Eloquence works against rational thought and panders to emotions and can therefore easily manipulate

Question 3

Milton’s sight

Answer 3

Milton was blind when he wrote PL

Question 4

What is in me dark Illumine - biblical reference

Answer 4

“let there be light” - creation story

Question 5

Satan’s shield

Answer 5

Achilles’ shield in the Ilyiad

Question 6

Moon

Answer 6

During the Renaissance considered to be a perfect Heavenly body but Gaileo proved it had flaws and scars

Question 7

Epic debate

Answer 7

Options of war and peace are discussed

Question 8

Pandemonium

Answer 8

Inversion of Pantheon, greek mythology the home of the Gods

Question 9

Influence of contemporary writers

Answer 9

English drama writers found new ways to represent inwardness

Question 10

Leaving Hell

Answer 10

Traditional view of it bring difficult - Persephone becomes trapped in Hell - Milton would have known through Ovid

Question 11

Liberty vs servitude

Answer 11

Popular imagery to use in relation to 17th century politics

Question 12

Hard liberty over the easy yoke of servile pomp

Answer 12

“My yoke is easy” - Matthew 11:28-30

Question 13

Bee simile

Answer 13

Used by Homer and Virgil, political metaphor bees are a royalist society

Question 14

Catalogue

Answer 14

Homer to catalogue ships, Virgil to catalogue warriors

Question 15

Catholic imagery

Answer 15

Puritans against iconography and the worship of saints and statues

Question 16

Sin

Answer 16

Sin is a version of Ovid’s monster Scylla from Metamorphoses

Question 17

Rejection of couplets

Answer 17

Norm for epic and tragedy in the Restoration - denounced in Milton’s note “The Verse” - “troublesome and modern bondage of rhyming”