AO5: Paradise Lost Flashcards
Carey: SATAN
Satan is a renaissance terrorist
C.S Lewis: SIN: PL
“Adam’s sin was less ignoble than Eve’s”
B. Lewalski GODS OUTLOOK ON WOMEN: PL
‘[God] instituted a matriarchy”
E. Tillyard EVE POWER: PL
“Eve takes and keeps the initiative”
B.Lewalski GENDER: PL
“Adam’s narrative testifies to a psychological and emotional neediness… undercuts gender hierarchy”
B. Lewanksi ADAM LONELY:PL
His keen sense of incompleteness and loneliness without an equal companion
J. Carey ON GOD: PL
“Morally repellent but Biblically authentic”
J. Carey HEROISM:PL
“Satan is the only heroic figure in the poem… Adam is pathetic…”
J. Carey INTELLIGENCE:PL
“Eve comes out far better than Adam. She’s more intelligent” e.g out-argues A in start of B9
C.Batt view on Milton HERO: PL
[Milton] seeks to redefine classical heroism”
Milton on why he wrote the poem
“To justify the ways of God to man”
C.S Lewis’s view on why Adam fell?
“Adam fell by uxoriousness”
Shelley (devil is more moral than God, Romantic critic)
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
Samuel Johnson (Romantic critic)
contempt of females, as subordinate and inferior beings
Diane Kelsey McColley
men fell by choice
Diane Kelsey McColley (LINK: MILTON’S FREE WILL)
obedience can take place only when the will is free
Woof on Satan’s response to Eve’s goodness
he has come to seduce, and is himself seduced, though briefly, with goodness
Evans on Satan ordering Sin and Death to “reign” in the “new kingdom” of Earth
the original imperialists
Leonard on prelapsarian state of Adam and Eve
not innocent, simply naive to the evil around them
