Paradise Lost Critics Flashcards

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Burden (Adam’s weakness)

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‘By granting her permission, Adam becomes involved in what happens to her’

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Empson (patriarchy)

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‘Milton thought that Men aught to control Women but that would make him feel all the more outraged when Eve turns round and blames Adam for having let her go’

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David Reid (on the Fall)

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‘Error is a lapse of mind and, like nonsense, cannot be understood’

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C.S. Lewis (on Eve’s action)

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Through giving Adam the fruit, Eve commits ‘murder’

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C.S. Lewis (on why Adam ate fruit)

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‘Adam fell by uxoriousness’

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Milton (purpose of epic poem)

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‘To justify the ways of God to man’

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John Carey (Satan)

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‘Satan is superior in character to Milton’s God’

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Tillyard (Adam vs Eve)

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‘From first to last Eve takes and keeps the initiative … Adam on the other hand is
unprepared, laborious and on the defensive … And then comes the tragedy. Adam, who Eve
expects to be firm, suddenly weakens’

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Fowler (Adam’s failure)

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‘In a sense Adam becomes corrupt because he refuses to divorce Eve, because he wants solace at any price’

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Christopher Hill (marriage)

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‘Milton specifically compared the marriage contract to the political contract between King and people’

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Sandra M. Gilbert (Milton)

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Milton is the ‘patriarch of patriarchs’

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William Blake (Milton)

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Milton ‘was of the Devil’s party without knowing it’

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Orazino Busino (selfishness)

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.Milton argues that all are born selfish, while Webster argues that Catholics are made vain by their religion’

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Barbara Lewinski (Satan + Eve)

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Satan ‘confronts Eve with a barrage of definition, false syllogisms and rhetorical powers’

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Stanley Fish (seduction)

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Milton wants us to be seduced + corrupted by Satan, ‘just as our forefathers were’ to show that corruption everywhere

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