Paradise Lost Flashcards by Gail I

Yusuf in the Qu’ran … the story in the Old Testament

rewrites

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Satan in the Qu’ranic story refuses to … and therefore goes to …: he’s … of Adam and Eve. This idea becomes tradition in both Christianity and Islam, and Milton’s work reflects this notion

bow down to Adam and Eve; Hell; jealous

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Paradise Lost is an … in … parts

epic poem; 12

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Book 1 announces what’s

goint to happen

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Book 4 has Adam and Eve in … (aka …)
Garden acts as a … (compare to Qu’ran and Bible)
Garden: … and … are in accord, as well as … and …–> no … between them: Eden is a place of complete …

Eden; Paradise; symbol; men; women; humans; nature; conflict

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Book 9 is where … occurs

the fall

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Milton is trying to …. the two versions of …

align; creation in the Bible

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Milton believed he was writing the

greatest epic poem of all time

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Great Latin poem called the …

Aeneid by Virgil

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Greek Latin Poem:

Iliad

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emergence of … in 14th century: before this, the idea that … (…) languages need to be developed arises

nation-states; vernacular; local

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idea that different nations need to have their own …
in early 17th century, Milton wants to write the …
Previously, Edmund Spencer wrote a Protestant epic called the …

epics; great English epic; Fairy Queen

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1517: …
initiated by Catholic priest … who declared that he wanted to … from …–> ends up … the Catholic church, reformers were …

Protestant Reformation; Martin Luther; reform the church; within; splitting; persecuted

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Milton is …:
English Revolution undertaken by …
- For 1st time in European history a king was …–> king no longer …, put on trial by … and was …
Milton writes Paradise Lost after the …. Protestants thought …, but … comes back in power
.. saved Milton from danger

Protestant; Protestants; put on trial; above the law; Parliament; executed; Protestants lost; Christ would come; Charles II; Andrew Marvell

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Milton, …, … Paradise Lost

blind; dictates

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Paradise Lost is significant because it influences … writers forever (e.g. Romanticism)
According to some, if you like Milton you’re a …–> these names still hold significance in England today

English; leftist radical

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purpose of Paradise Lost was to ..

justify the ways of God to man

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Paradise Lost intended to explain the …, which revolves around why God permits … and … in the world
Question of justification is called… (explanation of God’s … and of …)–> reason why everything happens in the world

problem of evil; evil; pain; theodicy; ways; suffering

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problem of evil is a problem because, before the fall, there is no …, and all the suffering in the world today has derived from …, because both Adam and Eve …: how could a …, .., … God allow good people to suffer? (inherent question)

pain; the fall; ate from a tree; good; omnipotent; merciful

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Discourse of marriage: Catholic priests can’t marry, Protestant priests can–> idea of …

companionate marriage

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milton attempts to imagine what companionate marriage would mean from within the context of

Christianity

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Paradise Lost begins with an …: classic epics would have them to …, Milton writes “Heav’nly Muse” to … this notion; Heav’nly muse is the …

invocation; muses; Christianize; Holy Spirit

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“Mortal taste”: introduces … and … taste of the fruit

death; humanizes

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“all our woe”: …, covers all of …

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poignant; human suffering

Heav'nly Muse inspired ... to write the story of creation--> rewriting of ... and ... in terms of the creation story: Epic convention of packing in ... of poem in the beginning--Milton is following this convention

Moses; Genesis; John; subject;

Language is being ... by layering the previous line with more ...

intensified; information

poem also acts as a

prayer

Milton is writing from a position of .., ... prayer from someone who feels as though God has ... combination of ... and ... present in the beginning reflects Milton's own emotions

pain; defeat; abandoned him; despair; hope

Brancacci chapel, masaccio frescoes | frescoe:

mural on wall

(Book 4) Satan is kind of like the future of ..., when they are ...

humans; fallen

(Book 4) Milton presents it as if Satan is, perhaps, ... with Eve because of her ... .... of Adam

in love; beauty; Jealous

(Book 4) Angels warning Adam and Eve is Milton's way of trying to ...: Empson, a literary critic, said that what made Paradise Lost so good is that it made God so ... Milton didn't play down God's ... Paradise Lost was a failed ..., because Milton didn't succeed in ...--> he doesn't fully persuade his audience

justify God; bad; anger; theodicy; explaining God's ways to man

"At one slight bound high..." | word bound has dual meaning: foreshadowing that Eve and Adam will be ...: losing their ...

bound; freedom

Epic simile: simile is developed, with many ...., ...

details; extended

epic simile in Paradise Lost: Satan as hungry, powerful ..., driven by hunger to look in a new place for ..., looking at a secure place where ... keep their ... Adam and Eve are compared to ...--> ..., .. Christian ... imagery (God as ...) Satan is also compared to a ...

wolf; prey; shepherds; sheep; sheep; vulnerable; innocent; pastoral; shepherd; thief

Milton includes ..., targeting Catholics: "His Church lewd hirelings climb!"

sectarian polemic

Milton writing against ... in gardens (e.g. ... gardens) where everything's perfectly ..., etc. He advocates the idea of nature ...

nice art; baroque; trimmed; taking control

politics of the garden: - in 16th century, notion of .. came about: people were allowed to graze their animals in common, no matter who owned the land, so poor people could have a .../something of the sort, or grow their own ... ... got rid of this, people began to put up ... more people became ..., ... the world was being more ... to people languages of ... and ... used in discourses of ...

enclosures; cow; gardens; enclosures; fences; landless; impoverished; closed off; vagrancy; vagabondage; slavery

milton is anti-..., and uses his description of Eden to argue against it. Taking the issue on indirectly, by thinking through how things would have been ...

enclosure; different in Eden

in the 16th century, Christians absorbed and gave Christian inflection to ... (like Greek ... and other pagan ideologies) Christian ... claimed that these stories were preparing the world for ...

classical stories; mythology; humanism; Christ's presence

Satan knows he's going to lose, but he wants ... to ... too He does this, because it ... His sheer motive is to ... Satan is a profoundly ... character Satan knows the consequences and knows he can't ..., but Adam and Eve don't know this, and he's still willing to ... anyway

mankind; fall; spreads out the blame; get back at God; petty; win; take them down

at this point in history, Catholicism didn't support the notion of ... in marriage

love

companionate marriage in Protestantism, occurs when Luther launches attack on Catholic notion of ... shown in Book ... in how Adam and Eve are presented: Lines 411-417 "Sole partner..." Eve is Adam's ...--> fairly ... notion in 17th century

celibacy among priests; four; companion; liberal

"Sole partner" speech is the 1st speech by a human being in the poem Adam is still addressing Eve as an ... in the ... era. Adam presents tree thing as a ...--> Milton trying to say it was an ... thing that shouldn't have happened Presents Adam and Eve as not knowing what ... is

equal; pre-lapsarian; minor prohibition; easy; death

Eve is presented as ..., when she sees her reflection in the pond, and thinks that she is more beautiful than Adam

Narcissus

Adam is emotionally ... Eve: I gave you my rib, why are you fleeing from me?

blackmailing

Eve desires her own ... too much. Part of the issue that causes her to fall is that she is ...: Kind of reflecting the situation in Milton's own marriage-the woman wants too much ... (his divorce)--> moment of ...

freedom; alone; space; projection

part of the problem is that a companion is made for Adam, but she isn't all that ... Eve becomes a wife that wants too much ...

into him; independence

Milton makes this situation (between Adam and Eve and stuff) less ..., and more understandable in human terms: there are problems in the ..., and that's what leads to the fall

evil; marriage

Milton works the ... present in his life into the story which works itself into the ..,. in that it implies that God isn't ...--> can't make marriage that is ..., makes a ... for Adam

contradictions; problem of evil; omnipotent; perfect; flawed companion

Milton suggesting that Eve wanted to be Adam's ... in her monologue after her fall Makes audience more ... towards Eve. Suggests here that the problem was that she ...--> implies that women's desire for ... is part of the problem Eve wants more ... and ... and this is the problem

equal; sympathetic; wanted to be his equal; equality; autonomy; equality

adam presented more as a .., whereas Eve is more .. like in lines 885-901: Adam is ... in front of Eve, ... - patriarchal interpretation: men need to be in control, because women are ..., because if they are left alone, they might wreak all kinds of ... Since men are so ... by women, they have to follow - Eve doesn't even have to tempt Adam, because that's how .../.. he is

buffoon; interesting; powerless; helpless; dangerous; damage; enchanted; devoted; enchanted

When Eve does transgress, it's her ... that becomes a problem. Eve is weaker because she's too ... and has less control over her ... Adam is characterized as ... by his devotion to Eve, which is what causes his fall - sets up patriarchal ..., even in patriarchal marriage

intelligence; rational; impulses; neutralized; inequity

Some of the most unequal discourses toward women are those of ... and ... casts person who is 'protected' as ...

love; protection; ungrateful

Eve has a little bit of ... (self-..._

autoeroticism; eroticism

(Predestination) Did God predestine this or did He simply ..., and why didn't He ...? Because He is omnipotenet and omniscient, why didn't he make Eve ...? - one argument is ... The contradiction is in how Milton describes ... within the poem - if they're gonna fall, ... will be born and sin will be ... - God hasn't engineered everything that Eve is gonna make: This gets into the biggest theological issues about why the world is the way it is --circular, gets back to problem of evil - the other question is why is the male ...? why wasn't Eve ...? Milton tries to solve the issue of predestination by reconciling the two ...

know in advance; prevent it; different; free will; women; Christ; canceled; dominant; created first; creation stories

Adam is ... at Eve's desire for independence

bemused

Adam: my devotion to you is so great, so why do you want anything else but me Adam desires a ... power over Eve.. It's a power that exercises itself through a performance of ... Adam making himself the .., a kind of ... The injury is to him because his devotion isn't returned - relates to abuser/rapist mentality: "You made me do it" - narrative of male ... combined with male ... --> way to transform powerlessness into absolute ..., by suggesting that involuntary arousals, etc. must be acted upon

paradoxical; helplessness; victim; wounded masculinity; victimage; power; violence;

how notion of marriage manifests itself in pride and prejudice? women have to ...-patriarchal structure

marry

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