Dom, Pl Critics

Question 1

Gilbert

Answer 1

Milton’s works are ‘staunchly antifeminist and consistently masculinist’

Question 2

Tanimoto

Answer 2

Eve the ‘patriarchal ideal of womanhood, trained to be obedient to male power’s

Question 3

Aughterson

Answer 3

Bosola ‘reinforces our sympathies with women’

Question 4

CS Lewis

Answer 4

Eve ‘fell through pride’ ‘Godhead is what she thinks of when she eats’

Question 5

Bliss

Answer 5

‘the duchess seeks private happiness over public stability’

Question 6

Woods

Answer 6

‘Milton was never comfortable with hierarchy’

Question 7

Stanley Fish

Answer 7

Poems purpose is to see God as malevolent

Question 8

Empson

Answer 8

Milton makes God ‘so bad’

Question 9

RUPERT Brooke

Answer 9

Revenge leads to ‘a maze of death and madness’

Question 10

CS Lewis (moral of PL)

Answer 10

Is ‘dazzlingly simple’

Question 11

Hazlitt

Answer 11

Satan’s aim was ‘the throne of the universe’

Question 12

Goodman

Answer 12

Nature is in general corrupted

Question 13

Cecil

Answer 13

Webster sees the world as ‘incurably corrupt’

Question 14

Luxon

Answer 14

Milton tries to define heterosexual marriage as ‘classical friendship’

Question 15

De Belleforest

Answer 15

Duchess guilty of lust and Antonio of ontological mobility

Question 16

Dolan

Answer 16

Marriage is a dangerous venture