Paradise lost a05 Flashcards
William Blake
Milton was a true poet, an advocate of the Devil’s party without knowing it.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Milton’s Devil as a moral figure is arguably far superior to his God.
Amelie Rorty
‘Akrasia of the emotions generally follows akrasia of interpretation.’
Joe Nutt
‘The betrayal in the garden reminds us of Christ’s own betrayal by Judas in the garden of Gethsemane.’
McColley
‘Milton sees part of himself in Eve.’
Dissanayake
Since it is through Eve that Sin and Death come into existence, she could be seen as the mother of sin.
Coar
‘All women are judged for displaying an appetite as they long been “haunted by the hunger of eve.”
Amelie Rorty
See for Adam akratic break led by ‘his general principles and ends.’
Russo
‘Adam’s akratic break was voluntary, while Eve’s was involuntary.’
Williams
‘Milton denounces Adam’s act. But he also imagines Adam’s passion so intensely it almost makes us wish it could be approved.’
C.S. Lewis
Milton anthropomorphises God overly and therefore makes him seem cold, unfeeling and tyrannical.
Bryson
None of Milton’s characters, not even his grandiloquent and bellicose Satan, has proven as disturbing for readers than the Father.
Empson
Milton’s God alike to ‘Stalin.. Inattentive of his peoples wishes and desires.’
Caroline Moore
‘Milton associates the ‘cumbersome’ Catholic church with the corrupt and ‘pontifical’ bridge over chaos made by Sin and Death.’
John Erskine
‘The theologian in Milton persuaded that death was a curse, but the poet in him uttered his true opinion - that death is a heaven-sent release.’
