critics - AO5

Question 1

Blake said he was …

Answer 1

of the devil’s party

Question 2

C.S on why Adam ate the fruit

Answer 2

Adam fell by UXORIOUSNESS (excessive attachment to, or dependence on a wife)

Question 3

Shelley on Satan as a moral being

Answer 3

Milton’s Devil as a moral being is far superior to God

Question 4

Carey on the Romantics

Answer 4

admired Satan as the passionate rebel

Question 5

Evans on how Milton portrays God

Answer 5

whether Milton intends to or not, his argument indicts God as careless and cruel

Question 6

Hazlitt

Answer 6

satan is a heroic subject for poem

Question 7

Frye

Answer 7

Adam is the opposite of heroic as he abandons his responsibilities

Question 8

Evans on why eve fell

Answer 8

eve’s failure is primarily intellectual

Question 9

intro critic john dryden

Answer 9

one of most noble, sublime poems that this age or nation has produced

Question 10

fish

Answer 10

reader is tempted by satanic epic

Question 11

mccollex

Answer 11

milton’s epic has remnants of biblical misogyny

Question 12

tillyard

Answer 12

eve’s vanity = her downfall
adam should’ve controlled eve

Question 13

c.s lewis

Answer 13

through giving adam the apple eve is pratically a murderer

Question 14

gilbert

Answer 14

eve’s refusal to accept hierachy

Question 15

mcevoy

Answer 15

adam and eve fall out of love

Question 16

c.s Lewis - hero

Answer 16

paradise lost has no easily identified hero