Satan Critical Voices Flashcards
1
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Caroline Moore on Satan on the chain of being
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- ‘ We see the progressive degradation of Satan’
2
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Anna Baldwin on the admiration of Satan
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- ‘ We can also admire his cleverness’
3
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Anna Baldwin on the prevention of Satan debate
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- ‘tragic hero’ ‘destructive villain’ or ‘absurd’
4
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John Carey on Satan’s evilness
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- ‘ Miltons effort to encapsulate evil in Satan was not successful’
5
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John Carey on the presentation of Satan
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- ‘the character of Satan is essentially ambivalent’
6
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Anna Baldwin on admiration for Satan in place of Eve
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- ‘invite us to feel not pity for her but contempt, not contempt for him but pleasure in his skill’
7
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Waldock on Milton’s presentation of Satan
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- ‘He will put some glorious thing in Satan’s mouth and then…will put us gently by the sleeve saying ‘Do not be carried away by this fellow; he sounds splendid, but take my word for it’
8
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Caroline Moore on Satan’s persuasion
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- ‘ The final assault on Eve’s virtue is a flurry of half-formed metaphysical and theological arguments’
9
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Barbara Lewinski on Satan’s persuasion
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- ‘ He confronts Eve with a barrage of definition, false syllogisms and rhetorical powers’
10
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Anna Baldwin on Women’s reason
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- ‘We see that Satan is exploiting Eve’s lack of reason, winding her in a rational yet absurd chain of contradicting arguments’
