Satan/ sin/ death A05

Question 1

Shelley

Answer 1

“Milton’s Devil as a moral figure is arguably far superior to his God”/ milton excites compassion for satan’’

Question 2

Blake

Answer 2

-‘Milton was a true poet, an of the Devil’s party without knowing it’

Question 3

Fallon

Answer 3

Milton naturally turns to the lesser reality of allegory to present characters who are the negation rather than the expression of substance.’’/ ‘’embodiments of metaphysical evil – the privation of being itself’

Question 4

Moore

Answer 4

Milton associates the ‘cumbersome’ Catholic church with the corrupt and ‘pontifical’ bridge over chaos made by Sin and Death’

Question 5

Mitlons Lycidas,

Answer 5

he likens Catholics to hungry wolves leaping into a sheep’s pen’

-link to animalism of sin and death

-instead see protestant ideal how sin is mans fault/fall fortunate

-sin and death have lesser existence as a privation

-all part of gods divine providenc

Question 6

Augustinan theodicy

Answer 6

Sees evil as privatio boni, the privation of good

Question 7

Epic Hero

Answer 7

*He is a genuinely heroic figure who cannot bear not being first – pride is the tragic flaw, the original sin. The classic model is Achilles, the flawed hero, but the greatest of heroes nonetheless.

Harmatia - fatal flaw of ambition guides hubrisitc behavior