God-Critics

Question 1

What does Percy Bysshe Shelley state about Milton’s satan and God?

Answer 1

1)”Milton’s Devil as a moral being is as far superior to his God”

2)”God inflicts the most horrible revenge upon his enemy”(satan)

Question 2

What does Clara Park state God is when he turns Satan into a snake?

Answer 2

-“spiteful magician”

Question 3

What does Empson state about why the poem is so good?

Answer 3

-“the reason why the poem is so good is that it makes God so bad”

Question 4

What does C.S Lewis state about people who dislike God?

Answer 4

-“many of those who say they dislike Milton’s God only meant that they dislike God as infinite sovereignty, by its very nature, includes wrath also”