paradise lost A05 early critical quotes

Question 1

Voltaire

Answer 1

1727
‘The God of Milton is always a father, a creator, a judge’

Question 2

Johnson

Answer 2

1779
Milton shows a ‘contempt of females’ as ‘subordinate and inferior beings’

link to Blake’s 1799-1800 painting because it shows A and E both under the forbidden tree yet only Eve has a serpent around her and fruit in her mouth yet Adam seems to be resisting it fine

Question 3

Blake

Answer 3

1790
Milton was ‘of the devils part without knowing it’

Question 4

Shelly in Frankenstein (about the creature) about Paradise Lost

Answer 4

1818
Paradise Lost is about ‘an omnipotent God warring with his creatures’

Question 5

Shelly in Frankenstein (about the creature) about Satan and Adam

Answer 5

1818
‘many times i considered satan as the fitter emblem of my condition, for often, like him, when i viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me’

link to Auladell 2012 graphic novel - it shows satan being cast out from heaven and actually turns us into devil advocates/ sympathisers - he only questioned his father

Question 6

Shelley

Answer 6

1821
‘’Miltons devil as a moral being, is far superior to his God’