critics Flashcards
Carey: “The Romantics famously admired……..
Satan as the passionate rebel”
C.S.Lewis: “[Satan is] a……
personified self-contradiction”
Blake: “Milton…was of the Devil’s…….
party without knowing it”
Martin: “Whether [Milton] intends to or not,…….
his argument indicts God as careless and cruel”
Evans: “Eve….
tempts us all”
Evans: “Eve’s failure is primarily….
intellectual, Adam’s is moral”
Rogers: “eve is the first…….
feminist”
Tillyard: “Milton ‘fails to convince us that……..
Adam and Eve are happy”
C.S.Lewis: “Adam fell by……
uxoriousness”
McColley: “Milton saw himself in Eve………
in her plea for freedom”
Frye: “Adam is the opposite of heroic as……..
he abandons his responsibilities”
Evans: “The story can be read as an image of……..
the transition from childhood to maturity”
