Paradise Lost ao5 Flashcards
(29 cards)
Monarchy unaccountable is the worst type of tyranny
John Milton 1649
The poem was written to ‘justify the ways of God to man’
John Milton 1667
The God of Milton is always a father, a creator, a judge
Voltaire 1727
Milton was of the Devil’s party without knowing it
William Blake 1790
Paradise lost is about “an omnipotent God warring with his creatures”
Mary Shelley Frankenstein, 1818
Milton’s Devil as a moral being is far superior’s to his God
Percy Shelley 1821
Milton depicts Satan as ‘malicious and idiotic’ a character whose pompous ‘self-love’ reveals the ‘ironical’ nature of his words
Williams 1940
Through giving Adam the fruit Eve commits ‘murder’
C.S Lewis 1942
Adam’s sin was less ignoble than Eve’s
C.S Lewis 1942
It is about men, it is historically true, and it is tragic
C.S Lewis 1961
The material chaos of Paradise Lost is unmistakably opposed to God
Chambers 1963
The reason the poem is so good is because it makes God so bad
Empson 1965
The tragedy is more his failure than hers
Burden 1967
The fall is an analogy for the collapse of commonwealth government
Hill 1975
The Satanic image is not simply an illusion but a dilemma
Gilbert and Gubar 1979
As abstracts of night, Sin and Death will work to further the darkness and shadow that approaches to enshroud the world
Bowers 1980
The character Sin is the embodiment of Satan’s turning from God; Death embodies the result of that turning
Fallon 1987
Milton insists that the wounded Earth is a matter of cosmological fact… extends the scope of the Fall from a human to a cosmological event
DuRocher 1996
Satan’s sense of Injured merit is likely to cause Resentment
Bloom 2002
Eve takes and keeps the initiative
Tillyard 2005
(Milton’s private life) was filled with challenges, joys and sorrows
Lewalski 2007
Milton’s epic is predominantly about knowing and choosing
Lewalski 2007
They are a tragic couple. They fall but they fall together
Iannucci 2009
Milton is almost too good at describing evil
Iannucci 2009
