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Paradise Lost Flashcards

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Yusuf in the Qu’ran … the story in the Old Testament

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rewrites

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Satan in the Qu’ranic story refuses to … and therefore goes to …: he’s … of Adam and Eve. This idea becomes tradition in both Christianity and Islam, and Milton’s work reflects this notion

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bow down to Adam and Eve; Hell; jealous

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Paradise Lost is an … in … parts

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epic poem; 12

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Book 1 announces what’s

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goint to happen

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Book 4 has Adam and Eve in … (aka …)
Garden acts as a … (compare to Qu’ran and Bible)
Garden: … and … are in accord, as well as … and …–> no … between them: Eden is a place of complete …

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Eden; Paradise; symbol; men; women; humans; nature; conflict

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Book 9 is where … occurs

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the fall

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Milton is trying to …. the two versions of …

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align; creation in the Bible

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Milton believed he was writing the

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greatest epic poem of all time

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Great Latin poem called the …

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Aeneid by Virgil

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Greek Latin Poem:

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Iliad

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emergence of … in 14th century: before this, the idea that … (…) languages need to be developed arises

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nation-states; vernacular; local

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idea that different nations need to have their own …
in early 17th century, Milton wants to write the …
Previously, Edmund Spencer wrote a Protestant epic called the …

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epics; great English epic; Fairy Queen

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1517: …
initiated by Catholic priest … who declared that he wanted to … from …–> ends up … the Catholic church, reformers were …

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Protestant Reformation; Martin Luther; reform the church; within; splitting; persecuted

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Milton is …:
English Revolution undertaken by …
- For 1st time in European history a king was …–> king no longer …, put on trial by … and was …
Milton writes Paradise Lost after the …. Protestants thought …, but … comes back in power
.. saved Milton from danger

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Protestant; Protestants; put on trial; above the law; Parliament; executed; Protestants lost; Christ would come; Charles II; Andrew Marvell

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Milton, …, … Paradise Lost

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blind; dictates

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Paradise Lost is significant because it influences … writers forever (e.g. Romanticism)
According to some, if you like Milton you’re a …–> these names still hold significance in England today

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English; leftist radical

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purpose of Paradise Lost was to ..

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justify the ways of God to man

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Paradise Lost intended to explain the …, which revolves around why God permits … and … in the world
Question of justification is called… (explanation of God’s … and of …)–> reason why everything happens in the world

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problem of evil; evil; pain; theodicy; ways; suffering

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problem of evil is a problem because, before the fall, there is no …, and all the suffering in the world today has derived from …, because both Adam and Eve …: how could a …, .., … God allow good people to suffer? (inherent question)

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pain; the fall; ate from a tree; good; omnipotent; merciful

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Discourse of marriage: Catholic priests can’t marry, Protestant priests can–> idea of …

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companionate marriage

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milton attempts to imagine what companionate marriage would mean from within the context of

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Christianity

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Paradise Lost begins with an …: classic epics would have them to …, Milton writes “Heav’nly Muse” to … this notion; Heav’nly muse is the …

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invocation; muses; Christianize; Holy Spirit

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“Mortal taste”: introduces … and … taste of the fruit

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death; humanizes

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“all our woe”: …, covers all of …

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poignant; human suffering

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Heav’nly Muse inspired … to write the story of creation–> rewriting of … and … in terms of the creation story: Epic convention of packing in … of poem in the beginning–Milton is following this convention

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Moses; Genesis; John; subject;

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Language is being … by layering the previous line with more …

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intensified; information

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poem also acts as a

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prayer

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Milton is writing from a position of .., …
prayer from someone who feels as though God has …
combination of … and … present in the beginning reflects Milton’s own emotions

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pain; defeat; abandoned him; despair; hope

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Brancacci chapel, masaccio frescoes

frescoe:

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mural on wall

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(Book 4) Satan is kind of like the future of …, when they are …

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humans; fallen

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(Book 4) Milton presents it as if Satan is, perhaps, … with Eve because of her … …. of Adam

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in love; beauty; Jealous

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(Book 4) Angels warning Adam and Eve is Milton’s way of trying to …: Empson, a literary critic, said that what made Paradise Lost so good is that it made God so …
Milton didn’t play down God’s …
Paradise Lost was a failed …, because Milton didn’t succeed in …–> he doesn’t fully persuade his audience

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justify God; bad; anger; theodicy; explaining God’s ways to man

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“At one slight bound high…”

word bound has dual meaning: foreshadowing that Eve and Adam will be …: losing their …

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bound; freedom

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Epic simile: simile is developed, with many …., …

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details; extended

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epic simile in Paradise Lost:
Satan as hungry, powerful …, driven by hunger to look in a new place for …, looking at a secure place where … keep their …
Adam and Eve are compared to …–> …, ..
Christian … imagery (God as …)
Satan is also compared to a …

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wolf; prey; shepherds; sheep; sheep; vulnerable; innocent; pastoral; shepherd; thief

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Milton includes …, targeting Catholics: “His Church lewd hirelings climb!”

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sectarian polemic

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Milton writing against … in gardens (e.g. … gardens) where everything’s perfectly …, etc. He advocates the idea of nature …

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nice art; baroque; trimmed; taking control

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politics of the garden:
- in 16th century, notion of .. came about: people were allowed to graze their animals in common, no matter who owned the land, so poor people could have a …/something of the sort, or grow their own …
… got rid of this, people began to put up …
more people became …, …
the world was being more … to people
languages of … and … used in discourses of …

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enclosures; cow; gardens; enclosures; fences; landless; impoverished; closed off; vagrancy; vagabondage; slavery

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milton is anti-…, and uses his description of Eden to argue against it. Taking the issue on indirectly, by thinking through how things would have been …

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enclosure; different in Eden

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in the 16th century, Christians absorbed and gave Christian inflection to … (like Greek … and other pagan ideologies)
Christian …
claimed that these stories were preparing the world for …

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classical stories; mythology; humanism; Christ’s presence

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Satan knows he’s going to lose, but he wants … to … too
He does this, because it … His sheer motive is to …
Satan is a profoundly … character
Satan knows the consequences and knows he can’t …, but Adam and Eve don’t know this, and he’s still willing to … anyway

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mankind; fall; spreads out the blame; get back at God; petty; win; take them down

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at this point in history, Catholicism didn’t support the notion of … in marriage

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love

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companionate marriage in Protestantism, occurs when Luther launches attack on Catholic notion of …
shown in Book … in how Adam and Eve are presented: Lines 411-417 “Sole partner…”
Eve is Adam’s …–> fairly … notion in 17th century

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celibacy among priests; four; companion; liberal

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“Sole partner” speech is the 1st speech by a human being in the poem
Adam is still addressing Eve as an … in the … era. Adam presents tree thing as a …–> Milton trying to say it was an … thing that shouldn’t have happened
Presents Adam and Eve as not knowing what … is

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equal; pre-lapsarian; minor prohibition; easy; death

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Eve is presented as …, when she sees her reflection in the pond, and thinks that she is more beautiful than Adam

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Narcissus

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Adam is emotionally … Eve: I gave you my rib, why are you fleeing from me?

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blackmailing

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Eve desires her own … too much. Part of the issue that causes her to fall is that she is …: Kind of reflecting the situation in Milton’s own marriage-the woman wants too much … (his divorce)–> moment of …

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freedom; alone; space; projection

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part of the problem is that a companion is made for Adam, but she isn’t all that …
Eve becomes a wife that wants too much …

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into him; independence

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Milton makes this situation (between Adam and Eve and stuff) less …, and more understandable in human terms: there are problems in the …, and that’s what leads to the fall

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evil; marriage

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Milton works the … present in his life into the story which works itself into the ..,. in that it implies that God isn’t …–> can’t make marriage that is …, makes a … for Adam

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contradictions; problem of evil; omnipotent; perfect; flawed companion

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Milton suggesting that Eve wanted to be Adam’s … in her monologue after her fall Makes audience more … towards Eve. Suggests here that the problem was that she …–> implies that women’s desire for … is part of the problem
Eve wants more … and … and this is the problem

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equal; sympathetic; wanted to be his equal; equality; autonomy; equality

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adam presented more as a .., whereas Eve is more .. like in lines 885-901: Adam is … in front of Eve, …

  • patriarchal interpretation: men need to be in control, because women are …, because if they are left alone, they might wreak all kinds of … Since men are so … by women, they have to follow
  • Eve doesn’t even have to tempt Adam, because that’s how …/.. he is
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buffoon; interesting; powerless; helpless; dangerous; damage; enchanted; devoted; enchanted

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When Eve does transgress, it’s her … that becomes a problem. Eve is weaker because she’s too … and has less control over her … Adam is characterized as … by his devotion to Eve, which is what causes his fall
- sets up patriarchal …, even in patriarchal marriage

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intelligence; rational; impulses; neutralized; inequity

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Some of the most unequal discourses toward women are those of … and …
casts person who is ‘protected’ as …

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love; protection; ungrateful

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Eve has a little bit of … (self-…_

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autoeroticism; eroticism

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(Predestination) Did God predestine this or did He simply …, and why didn’t He …? Because He is omnipotenet and omniscient, why didn’t he make Eve …?
- one argument is … The contradiction is in how Milton describes … within the poem
- if they’re gonna fall, … will be born and sin will be …
- God hasn’t engineered everything that Eve is gonna make: This gets into the biggest theological issues about why the world is the way it is –circular, gets back to problem of evil
- the other question is why is the male …? why wasn’t Eve …?
Milton tries to solve the issue of predestination by reconciling the two …

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know in advance; prevent it; different; free will; women; Christ; canceled; dominant; created first; creation stories

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Adam is … at Eve’s desire for independence

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bemused

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Adam: my devotion to you is so great, so why do you want anything else but me
Adam desires a … power over Eve.. It’s a power that exercises itself through a performance of … Adam making himself the .., a kind of … The injury is to him because his devotion isn’t returned
- relates to abuser/rapist mentality: “You made me do it”
- narrative of male … combined with male … –> way to transform powerlessness into absolute …, by suggesting that involuntary arousals, etc. must be acted upon

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paradoxical; helplessness; victim; wounded masculinity; victimage; power; violence;

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how notion of marriage manifests itself in pride and prejudice? women have to …-patriarchal structure

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marry

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