AO5: Paradise Lost Flashcards

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Carey: SATAN

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Satan is a renaissance terrorist

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C.S Lewis: SIN: PL

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“Adam’s sin was less ignoble than Eve’s”

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B. Lewalski GODS OUTLOOK ON WOMEN: PL

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‘[God] instituted a matriarchy”

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E. Tillyard EVE POWER: PL

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“Eve takes and keeps the initiative”

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B.Lewalski GENDER: PL

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“Adam’s narrative testifies to a psychological and emotional neediness… undercuts gender hierarchy”

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B. Lewanksi ADAM LONELY:PL

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His keen sense of incompleteness and loneliness without an equal companion

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J. Carey ON GOD: PL

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“Morally repellent but Biblically authentic”

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J. Carey HEROISM:PL

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“Satan is the only heroic figure in the poem… Adam is pathetic…”

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J. Carey INTELLIGENCE:PL

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“Eve comes out far better than Adam. She’s more intelligent” e.g out-argues A in start of B9

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C.Batt view on Milton HERO: PL

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[Milton] seeks to redefine classical heroism”

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Milton on why he wrote the poem

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“To justify the ways of God to man”

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C.S Lewis’s view on why Adam fell?

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“Adam fell by uxoriousness”

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Shelley (devil is more moral than God, Romantic critic)

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Milton’s Devil as a moral being is as far superior to his God, as one who perseveres in some purpose which he has conceived to be excellent in spite of adversity and torture

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Samuel Johnson (Romantic critic)

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contempt of females, as subordinate and inferior beings

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Diane Kelsey McColley

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men fell by choice

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Diane Kelsey McColley (LINK: MILTON’S FREE WILL)

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obedience can take place only when the will is free

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Woof on Satan’s response to Eve’s goodness

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he has come to seduce, and is himself seduced, though briefly, with goodness

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Evans on Satan ordering Sin and Death to “reign” in the “new kingdom” of Earth

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the original imperialists

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Leonard on prelapsarian state of Adam and Eve

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not innocent, simply naive to the evil around them