Paradise Lost Naming Critics

Question 1

The falling pair may think they are becoming gods, but the language of the poem insists that they are turning into animals.

Answer 1

J.M Evans

Question 2

Eve is in fact the injured party, a shepherdess who is finally corrupted by an authentic town rake.

Answer 2

J.M Evans

Question 3

Adam falls through love…through love as human beings know it at its best…and yet this noble (or at the least half-noble) act constitutes the Fall of Man.

Answer 3

A.J.A Waldock

Question 4

The corruption of innocence begins with a corruption of language.

Answer 4

John Leonard

Question 5

Milton was radical in making Eve an ardent caretaker of the natural world.

Answer 5

Diane K. McColley

Question 6

Satan has now moved outside both the classical and Elizabethan paradigms of tragedy, since for him there can be no catharsis of any kind…but only a continual declining and falling.

Answer 6

Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

Question 7

Paradise Lost is pre-eminantely a poem about knowing and choosing

Answer 7

Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

Question 8

Milton attempts to redefine classical heroism in Christian terms

Answer 8

Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

Question 9

The serpent’s most persuasive argument is his ability to argue

Answer 9

John Leonard