Milton writes about a world which is already fallen

Question 1

Empson vs Zimmerman

Answer 1

Eve’s seduction vs search for her independence

Question 2

How did Satan enter the garden to begin with

Answer 2

God is omniscient and this is the second time Satan had been able to penetrate the garden
“serpent subtlest beast”
“Better to reign in Hell then serve in Heaven”

HOWEVER

“God left free the will” and when Satan in his great operatic aria speaks of a certain “goodly tree” it is of Eve’s own volition that she accepts the exordiums “empress of this fair world” that Satan places on her (Women cannot receive the holy sacrament in church)

Question 3

Why did God place the tree in the Garden to begin with

Answer 3

Comparative “goodly” juxtaposed to the superlative “goodliest” suggests that the tree is maligned with evil - test for Adam

Ricks an argument about Gods justice as God goes against the Kantian maxim of morality and treats Eve as a means to an end
“Superior: who inferior is free” - God should have created both man and women as equal

Question 4

Odyssey

Answer 4

Dawns rosy fingers the sun was sunk