Paradise Lost Flashcards
when was it written?
1667
this was written in __________.
epic blank verse
what words describe when the narrator breaks into narrative and addresses character?
epic apostrophe
Milton’s religious beliefs
Calvinist (Protestant theological system)
Milton’s contemporaries
Drydon, Hobbes
Milton was a contemporary of ______ and used his idea of the _______
Shakespeare
muses
this was written during ________
Restoration
this is a _______ based on things like ________
traditional epic
arthur or war of roses (Lancaster vs. York)
this was a revival of _______ aka _____
classic ideas
Bible
this was written for…
people who knew the classic epics (Homer, Virgil, Ovid)
has the triangulation of _____
reason, virtue, freedom (right from wrong)
this story challenges us to think ________
rhetorically
this is an elevated style like _______ who begins with ______
Donne’s
vehicles
He categories characters, just like these other texts
The Rape of the Lock, The Canterbury Tales
he invokes _____ like these writers
muses
shakespeare, homer, virgil, dante, ovid
Book 1
aftermath of Fall, building pandemonium, assemble for council
Book 2
fallen angels talk about what to do, Satan leaves to gates (Sin and Death)
what does Moloch say to do?
War
What does Belial vote for?
accept the Fall
what does Mammon think?
hell over anything
what does Beelzebub suggest they do?
take advantage of humans
Book 4
satan enters paradise, soliloquy (jealous but then realizes he wants revenge and to rule in Hell)
Book 9
Satan returns as serpent, Eve & Adam bite apple, cover up naked bodies, weep (no paradise)
Book 10
gates come down, Sin and Death travel to earth, Fallen angels turn to serpents, hunger takes over and trees of knowledge everywhere but it turns to dust
book 12
Michael tells Adam what’s next, gives them hope to create new life of love, faith and virtue
