'The Fall' and the Sin

Question 1

P1: The Fall and sin fuelled by desire TDOM (Point)

Answer 1

In both PL and TDOM, sin is fuelled by desire and the need to acquire what is forbidden or again religious and societal norms.
In TDOM, the Cardinal’s fall is caused by his unholy desires and the use of role of minister of the Church to hide his blasphemous, elusive acts.

Question 2

P1: The Fall and sin fuelled by desire TDOM (Evidence)

Answer 2

‘he did bestow bribes so largely…as if he would have carried it way without heaven’s knowledge’
‘for the Devil speaks in them’
‘oracles hang at his lips’

Question 3

P1: The Fall and sin fuelled by desire TDOM (AO3)

Answer 3

In the Jacobean era, like Busino, a Catholic leader said, English representation of Catholicism as ‘destestable and superstitious’ and for ‘laughter and mockery’
Italy as the site of counter reformation, Milton hated material wealth of the Church- an ambitious clergyman, ‘unbishops himself’

Question 4

P1: The Fall and sin fuelled by desire TDOM (AO5)

Answer 4

Muriel Brad Brooks says, the Cardinal already knows he is in hell’.

Question 5

P1: The Fall and sin fuelled by desire PL (Point)

Answer 5

Similarly, in PL, Eve allows herself to be seduced by Satan who entices her by the promise of knowledge, which would allow her to be like God

Question 6

P1: The Fall and sin fuelled by desire PL (Evidence)

Answer 6

‘ye of human God’
‘intellectual fruit’

Question 7

P1: The Fall and sin fuelled by desire PL (AO3)

Answer 7

women as ‘crooked by nature’- Joseph Swetnam

Question 8

P1: The Fall and sin fuelled by desire PL (AO5)

Answer 8

Wheeler (1986) says that Eve ‘risks her life and soul for ambition’
McEvoy says, ‘the inherent sinfulness of women and their lustful nature’.

Question 9

P2: Sin leading to grave consequences TDOM (Point)

Answer 9

In both TDOM and PL, the consequences for sin are grave and cause eternal damnation.
In TDOM, the Duchess’ disobedience towards her brothers causes her to lose her own family