Paradise Lost Quotes&Critics

Question 1

“Sole Eve, associate sole.” - “Daughter of God and man” “woman”

Answer 1

Paragraph: Adam

Question 2

“Fondly overcome with female charm”

Answer 2

Paragraph: Adam

Question 3

“From thy state/ mine shall never be parted, bliss or woe.”

Answer 3

Paragraph: Adam

Question 4

“Thus it shall befall/ him who to worth in Women overtrusting Lets her will rile”

Answer 4

Paragraph: Adam

Question 5

“Safeliest and seemliest by her husband staies, /who guards her, or with her the worst endures.” “So spake domestic Adam”

Answer 5

Paragraph: Adam

Question 6

(1965) Northrop Fry (Paragraph: Adam)

Answer 6

…described Adam to be ‘overcome by female charm’ Northrop Frye (1965) found Adam the opposite of heroic for abandoning his responsibilities.

Question 7

(21st) Anna Baldwin (Paragraph: Adam)

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…argues that ‘We are forced to admire Adam for cleaving to his marriage vow.’ Argues that - during Book IX Adam and Eve are equals so Adam cannot legitimately control Eve’s actions.

Question 8

(1947) Waldock (Paragraph: Adam)

Answer 8

…We are compelled to sympathise with Adam’s love for Eve

Question 9

(2013) Margaret Kean (Paragraph: Adam)

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…“Adam certainly does not warrant a completely separate temptation where he is allowed to fall from love rather than a weakness in his logic.”

Question 10

Nevertheless, observes how Milton compares the marriage contract to the political contract between king and people - a common C17th belief. Woman is subordinate and subject to man. (Paragraph: Adam)

Answer 10

Context

Question 11

McEvoy (Paragraph: Satan)

Answer 11

“Satan is figured as a sleazy seducer”

Question 12

Shelly: (Paragraph: Satan)

Answer 12

Milton’s “Devil is far superior to his God.”

Question 13

Coleridge: (Paragraph: Satan)

Answer 13

“Milton has carefully marked his Satan in selfish.”

Question 14

Blake: (Paragraph: Satan)

Answer 14

“Milton’s at the devils party’’

Question 15

Protestant sects followed the teaching of John Calvin in emphasizing God’s Supreme power as so seeing the Fall as desired by him to make humankind dependant on Christ’s salvations. Catholics believed Fall was caused by the devil, and the effects of Christ’s redeeming blood being carried through sacraments (mass/baptism)
Rebellion against the Monarchy. Cromwell. (Paragraph: Satan)

Answer 15

Context

Question 16

‘Only in destroying I find ease’

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Reader usually will morally align with Satan despite violently declaring…The conditional adverb highlights the psychopathic nature of Satan. (Paragraph: Satan)

Question 17

‘Full of anguish’

Answer 17

Serves to evoke sympathy from reader and align themselves with Satan’s alternative views. (Paragraph: Satan)

Question 18

‘Heav’ns Supreme’

Answer 18

Satan’s lack of traditional moral compass as he desires to unnaturally ascend the great chain of being and usurp God. (Paragraph: Satan)

Question 19

‘The more I see pleasures about me, so much more I feel torment within me’

Answer 19

Harsh verb highlight the inner conflict of Satan. Evokes the sense of possible motivation. (Paragraph: Satan)

Question 20

Anna Baldwin (Paragraph: Eve)

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“admire Adam for cleaving to his marriage vow”, “Eve’s “passion of pride” leads her to place herself before Adam”

Question 21

Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar (Paragraph: Eve)

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…in “Patriarchal Poetry” argue about a “Satanically inspired Eve” and argue that Milton is a representative of cultural misogyny

Question 22

Joan S Bennett (Paragraph: Eve)

Answer 22

“Eve’s failure comes in not reasoning long or hard enough”

Question 23

‘She pluck’ ‘she eat’ (Paragraph: Eve)

Answer 23

Increase in speed and rhythm

Highlight lack of reason. Thus the severity of the situation.

Question 24

‘Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe’ (Paragraph: Eve)

Answer 24

Ruthless and Selfish

Question 25

‘Safest and seemliest by her husband stays’ (Paragraph: Eve)

Answer 25

Serves to remind reader of Eves awareness of her duties

Question 26

Gilbert and Gubar (Paragraph: Eve)

Answer 26

‘Satanically-inspired’

Question 27

Tillyard (Paragraph: Eve)

Answer 27

‘Virtually Fallen’ before eating the fruit

Question 28

(Paragraph: Milton’s Aim) ‘The sun was sunk’

Answer 28

metaphorically representing Milton’s thought of the monarchy

Question 29

Keane (Paragraph: Milton’s Aim)

Answer 29

‘Re-educate the english’ Milton believed the English blindly accepted the reformation of the Monarchy

Question 30

‘unpremeditated verse’ (Paragraph: Milton’s Aim)

Answer 30

Natural Flow

Question 31

‘celestial patroness’ (Paragraph: Milton’s Aim)

Answer 31

Milton’s Moral Duty

…be vessel for publishing the divine words told to him at night.

Question 32

Baldwin (Paragraph: Milton’s Aim)

Answer 32

‘dedicated to his muse’… Milton was dedicated to his ‘celestial patroness’

Question 33

Keane 2.0 (Paragraph: Milton’s Aim)

Answer 33

‘Anti-epic’ Juxtaposed Annus Mirabilis which favour moral values and inherentyly catholic…opposite of Milton