Critics

Question 1

Christopher Hill

Answer 1

Compared Milton to Levellers and 5th Monarchists

Question 2

C.S. Lewis

Answer 2

Described Paradise Lost as a ‘Christian morality tale’

Question 3

Fish

Answer 3

‘The experience of reading Paradise Lost mirrors its doctrinal message’

Question 4

Blake

Answer 4

‘Milton was of the Devil’s party without knowing it’

Question 5

Broadbent

Answer 5

‘the love it [Adam eating the forbidden fruit] affirms is not free for Eve has demanded it by dilemma’

Question 6

McColley

Answer 6

Milton ‘broke the stereotypical scapegoating of Eve as essentially a temptress and uniquely gave her responsible motives for her independednt movements on the morning of the fall’

Question 7

Danielson

Answer 7

‘Evil is caused by the misuse of free will’

Question 8

Lanucci

Answer 8

‘Satan speaks for freedom but from an autocratic viewpoint’

Question 9

Davies

Answer 9

There is ‘no metaphysical dimension in Adam’s decision to fall with Eve’

Question 10

Patterson

Answer 10

‘Satan pretended to have a much greater regard for their happiness and comfort than even God himself had’

Question 11

Carey

Answer 11

‘Milton’s effort to encapsulate full evil in Satan was not successful’