Critics for Paradise lost

Question 1

John Milton

Answer 1

“To Justify the ways of god to man”

Question 2

William Blake

Answer 2

“of the devils party without knowing it”

Question 3

Diane.K. Mccalley

Answer 3

“Milton broke the stereotypical scapegoating of eve as a temptress”

Question 4

Joseph Swetnam

Answer 4

“straight away her mind was set upon mischief”

Question 5

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Answer 5

“Miltons Devil as a moral being is far superior to his God”

Question 6

Stanley Fish

Answer 6

“seeing God as malevolent or Satan as attractive is a sign of our fallen state”

Question 7

C.S. Lewis (‘a preface to PL’)

Answer 7

“it is a mistake to find rebellion admirable: Satan is not a heroic figure and Eve’s transgression is lamentable”

Question 8

C.S. Lewis (Eve)

Answer 8

“Eve is a murderess”

Question 9

C.S. Lewis (Satan)

Answer 9

“Satan undergoes a progressive degradation from God’s second in command to a mere peeping tom”

Question 10

C.S. Lewis (Satan 2)

Answer 10

“all his … torments come, in a sense, at his own bidding”

Question 11

William Empson

Answer 11

“surely a lot of characteristics in fiction … become pretty dull if the orthodoxy is always right”

Question 12

D.K. Mccalley

Answer 12

(Milton identifies with Eve in her) “plea for freedom and a little solitude”

Question 13

Voltaire

Answer 13

“in all other poems love is perceived as a vice, in Milton only, is it a Virtue”

Question 14

Tillyard

Answer 14

Milton “fails to convince us that Adam and Eve are happy”

Question 15

Caroline Moore

Answer 15

“Satan has all the virtues of an Achilles: undaunted courage, charisma, and magnificent rhetoric”

Question 16

Lewalski

Answer 16

“subtly compliments those rational powers where in she knows herself inferior to Adam”

Question 17

John Carey

Answer 17

“Milton’s effort to encapsulate evil in Satan was not successful”

Question 18

Barbara Lewalski

Answer 18

“by measuring Satan against heroic standards, we become conscious of the inadequacy and fragility of all heroic virtues celebrated in literature, of the susceptibility of them to all demonic perversion”

Question 19

AN Wilson

Answer 19

“Milton could scarcely write about rebellion without secretly being on the side of the rebels”.

Question 20

Dr Samuel Johnson

Answer 20

(Milton) “He thought women only made for obedience, and man for rebellion”.

Question 21

Susanne Woods (1988)

Answer 21

“Milton was never comfortable with human hierarchy. (The republican who abhorred an aristocratic system that gave authority by happenstance of birth to kings and princes could not be perfectly at ease with a gender hierarchy also dependent on birth”)

Question 22

Abdullah F. Al-Badarneh

Answer 22

“privileges her as an active agent in the social communicative process.”

Question 23

John Dryden (not qoute)

Answer 23

Satan, who disdains servitude and tries to overturn his monarch, becomes in Dryden’s rewriting an unmistakeable portrait of Oliver Cromwell, the king-killer.

Question 24

Waldock

Answer 24

“adam falls through love, not through sensuality”

Question 25

felix culpa

Answer 25

“happy fall”