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Waldock

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Adam falls through love…and yet this noble (or at the least half-noble) act constitutes the Fall of Man.

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Christopher

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‘Milton takes pains to show that Adam and Eve make glorious love before the Fall’

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Cerritelli

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Eve is ‘A heroic individual who defines Christian doctrines of grace and redemption’
‘Paradise Lost contains a surprisingly modern and feminist view of the Fall’

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Tillyard

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Adam and Eve are both imperfect and pre-fallen creatures

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All Evans

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The falling pair may think they are becoming gods, but the language of the poem insists that they are turning into animals.

Eve is in fact the injured party, a shepherdess who is finally corrupted

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All Leonard

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The corruption of innocence begins with a corruption of language.

The serpent’s most persuasive argument is his ability to argue

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All McColley

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Milton was radical in making Eve an ardent caretaker of the natural world, a passionate, sensuous and pure exotic partner’

‘Their work is mutual’

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All Lewalski

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Satan has now moved outside both the classical and Elizabethan paradigms of tragedy, since for him there can be no catharsis (relief from repressed emotions) of any kind…but only a continual declining and falling.

Paradise Lost is pre-eminantely a poem about knowing and choosing

Milton attempts to redefine classical heroism in Christian terms

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All Carey

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‘Satan displays imagination in a way that is unavailable to God or the other good characters’

‘Beauty and delight are his natural element. Hatred is an effort of his will’.