PL

Question 1

sin’s subservience

Answer 1

Book X
I was made to serve and must obey

Book II - a sudden figure appeared

Question 2

Raphael’s obedience / devotion

Answer 2

freely we serve because freely we love

Question 3

dr. McEvoy on the felix culpa

Answer 3

a fallen free thinking world is better than one where mankind is stupidly good

Question 4

Percy Byshee Shelly

Answer 4

god =overly authoritarian

satan = anti-establishment hero

Question 5

Milton’s issue with religion on earth

Answer 5

NO HUMAN INSTITUTION HAS THE RIGHT TO CLAIM DIVINE AUTHORITY ON GOD’S BEHALF

e.g promotes regicide in 1649 TENURE ON KINGS AND MAGISTRATES

Question 6

how did Milton foreshadow the enlightenment

Answer 6

skepticism over monarchy / divine right

civil war 40s-50s - REPUBLICAN

Question 7

Gilbert and Gubar on the nature of rebellion

Answer 7

battle for self-creation involves a collison between impulses towards autonomy VS aesthetic / social values that claim to define

Question 8

Gilbert and Gubar on the necessity of rebellion

Answer 8

rebellion against the hierarchical status quo is as necessary as it is for Satan