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1
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Satan seducing eve

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Divine queen

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2
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Eve reaction to Satan

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Beautiful snake

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3
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God opinion on Adam and Eve

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Deserved to fall

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4
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Eve asking Adam to split up

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Divide our labours

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5
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Milton addressing the reader at start of book 9 change the tone

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I must now change these notes to tragic

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6
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Eve is desperate to share the fruit

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Bless tedious unshared with thee

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7
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Satan on Adam slightly jealousy

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Whose higher intellect i shun

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8
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Narrator on eve eating apple

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Greedily she ingorg’d without restraint

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9
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Sex after Adam eats fruit

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In lust they burne

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10
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Adam complaining after sin in lust

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Sham’d naked and miserable

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Prof Peter J smith on PL

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Paradise lost is staking a clam for a veerment from protestantism

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12
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What were milton’s political views

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Defended republicanism and therefore supported Oliver cromwell
Anti monarchial

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13
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When did Charles the second restore the monarchy

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1660

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14
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What did Milton do to critique the English court.

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Filled piece with allusions to politics in England

Alikening Satan to King James

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15
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What were Milton’s religious beliefs?

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Arminianist god is never wrong and when people disobey god that is when they sin
Opposed Anglican Church and Catholicism

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16
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What was Milton’s book concerning his views on marriage?

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Doctrine and disciplines on divorce

17
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What book did Milton write advocating for free speech?

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Areopagitica

18
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When was Charles 1 executed

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1649 Milton advocated for his regicide due to his oppression

19
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What did King James 1 believe in

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The divine right of kings

20
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How does book 1 foreground Milton’ arminianist belief

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Justifies the way of God to men

21
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Why was milton’ paradise lost revised in 1674 after being published 1667

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Add arguments at beginning of books making it easier to understand

22
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Adam quote SHOWS ARMINIAN

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free will crued

23
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What genre is pl

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Epic poem

Milton always breaks genre is peculiar version of epic

24
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How would Aristotle describe Milton’s pl

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Tragedy

25
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What is Adam

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Noble hero

26
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What is adam’s hamartia

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His ‘uxuriousness’

27
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How does Milton’s doctrine de Christians relate to adam

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Milton advocated a man should have an extra right in marriage
Encouraged readers to criticise adam’s uxuriousness
In being fooled by female charm

28
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Why Milton develops obedience from book 9 to 10

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Humanity progress childish prelapsarian to adulthood of rational auttonomynepitmised by Eve

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