paradise lost A05 contemprary critical quotes

Question 1

Book of Genesis

Answer 1

‘she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it’

Question 2

Milton in Areopagitica

Answer 2

1644
‘we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity’

Question 3

Milton in The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates

Answer 3

1649
‘monarchy unaccountable, is the worst sort of Tyranny’

link this to the painting by Tintoretto in 1577-78 (shows Eve offering Adam the apple and him being afraid/ hesitant to take it)

Question 4

Milton in Eikonoklastes

Answer 4

1649
‘we may conclude therefore that justice, above all other things, is and ought to be the strongest’

Question 5

Milton

Answer 5

1667
the poem was written to ‘justify the ways of God to man’

Question 6

Dryden

Answer 6

1697
Asserts that satan is the hero because he defeats Adam

link to Schall in 1792 where one of the guards of paradise is walking A and E somewhere and Adam’s hands are in his head whilst Eve is looking wondering and wanting to know more