Paradise lost crit

Question 1

Kendra Gilbert

Answer 1

eve’s hamartia is vanity

Question 2

Milton - role of wives

Answer 2

‘faithful friend’

Question 3

Eliot on Eve

Answer 3

Eve is a woman of the world

Question 4

Blake - satanism

Answer 4

The reason Milton wrote … at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was … of the Devil’s party without knowing it.

Question 5

Johnson - misogyny

Answer 5

a Turkish contempt of females, as subordinate and inferior beings.

Question 6

C.S Lewis - Eve selfish

Answer 6

She decides that if she is to die, Adam must die with her … Its name in English is Murder

Question 7

Ames - fall on nature

Answer 7

‘weakened, put out of order and as it were wounded’

Question 7

Spinoza - the fall

Answer 7

Man fell because he imitates beasts.

Question 8

Bacon - quest for knowledge inherently leads to evil

Answer 8

but it was the proud knowledge of good and evil, with an intent in man to give law unto himself, and to depend no more upon God’s commandments, which was the form of the temptation.’

Question 9

Orlando Reade

Answer 9

a work of art… but (also) an important political document’