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Paradise Lost Quotes&Critics Flashcards

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

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Paragraph: Adam

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“Fondly overcome with female charm”

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Paragraph: Adam

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

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Paragraph: Adam

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

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Paragraph: Adam

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

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Paragraph: Adam

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(1965) Northrop Fry (Paragraph: Adam)

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

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(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.

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(1947) Waldock (Paragraph: Adam)

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

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(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.”

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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)

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Context

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McEvoy (Paragraph: Satan)

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“Satan is figured as a sleazy seducer”

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Shelly: (Paragraph: Satan)

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

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Coleridge: (Paragraph: Satan)

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“Milton has carefully marked his Satan in selfish.”

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Blake: (Paragraph: Satan)

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“Milton’s at the devils party’’

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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)

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Context

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‘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)

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‘Full of anguish’

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

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‘Heav’ns Supreme’

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

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

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

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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”

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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

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Joan S Bennett (Paragraph: Eve)

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

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

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Increase in speed and rhythm

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

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

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Ruthless and Selfish

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

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Serves to remind reader of Eves awareness of her duties

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Gilbert and Gubar (Paragraph: Eve)

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‘Satanically-inspired’

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Tillyard (Paragraph: Eve)

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‘Virtually Fallen’ before eating the fruit

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

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metaphorically representing Milton’s thought of the monarchy

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Keane (Paragraph: Milton’s Aim)

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

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

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Natural Flow

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

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Milton’s Moral Duty

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

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Baldwin (Paragraph: Milton’s Aim)

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

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Keane 2.0 (Paragraph: Milton’s Aim)

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

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