John Milton Flashcards
He was more
Independent than Presbyterian
He maintained
that genuine virtue requires testing
He believed that Christ
was not co-equal with God.
Sonnet 18 theme:
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
The topic of the great prose treatise Areopagitica is:
freedom of the press.
Paradise lost:
According to the romantics the hero is satan, but the true hero is
Christ
Paradise lost
According to the introductory lines the poems primary purpose is to
justify the ways of God to men
Paradise lost:
The first question Milton asks is
who caused man to fall
Paradise lost:
Satan argues with eve at the tree
- Surely God will not get angry over such a petty trespass
- God will admire you for daring to challenge him.
- Death actually means to become a god.
Paradise lost:
Satan erroneously associates innocence with ignorance in his
speech to eve at the tree
Paradise lost:
According to Milton, God allows Satan to
escape the burning lake so he could confirm his own damnation by repeatedly committing crimes and so that he could witness the failure of these attempts to thwart providence.
Paradise lost:
According to Milton, nature groans and trembles when Eve eats of the fruits.
“Nature from her seat, sighing through all her works gave signs of woe that all was lost”
He was a _______ and a _____ that went _____.
Politician, Writer, Blind
