General Context

Question 1

Seduction

Answer 1

Milton’s TETRACHORDON says “the wiser should govern the less wise”

Question 2

What does Milton say in his divorce tracts

Answer 2

The goal of marriage should be to”souls’ union” and “intellectual delight” and he believed men and women should be equal

Question 3

Satan

Answer 3

Milton argued in favour of the execution of Charles I, believing that a tyrannical ruler violated the divine hierarchy

Milton wrote PL after CROMWELL’S government failed - some critics say his writing about the Fall was an attempt to understand the fallibility of mankind

Several epic archetypes seen: vast setting, invocation, epithets. Satan is the epic hero, argu - an appealing character to the Romantics, as they embraced this model of anti-hero who challenged authority

Question 5

Turmoil / upheaval in paradise lost

Answer 5

Milton was writing in a time of political turmoil during King Charles I’s “ELEVEN YEARS’ TYRANNY” (1629 - 40)

And in the civil war (1642 - 9)

Question 6

The closed environment of Eden

Answer 6

The censorship during Milton’s time as a government official licensed all books

The state controlled the output of “good” and “evil”

Question 7

Areopagitica

Answer 7

Unless a political opinion can be put to the test in open debate we can never know its truth or value
Eg. Eve and virtue

Question 8

Adam choosing to die with eve out of love

Answer 8

Idealistic opinion of marriage of the SOULS’ UNION however due to Milton’s pURITAN beliefs it is perhaps A’s dedication to E instead of God that makes him easier to debase at the end of book 9

Question 9

Divorce tracts

Answer 9

Adam and eve’s death - sense of complete destruction when you don’t give people the right to divorce

Question 10

By twisting what faith means to eve, satan in some ways may represent …

Answer 10

Institutions like the Church of England and the monarchy which Milton hated

They seemed to stray SOMETIMES from the authority of the bible and use religion for their own benefit