PL CRITIQUES Flashcards
(8 cards)
1
Q
“The fall is an analogy for the collapse of the commonwealth government”
A
Hill
1975
2
Q
The character of sin is the allegorical embodiement of satans turning from god”
A
Fallon
1978
3
Q
“The poem was written to justify the ways of god to man”
A
Milton
1667
4
Q
“Milton shows a ‘contempt of females’, as ‘subordinate and inferior beings’”
A
Johnson
1779
5
Q
“Through giving Adam the fruit Eve commits murder”
A
C.S Lewis
1942
6
Q
“The reason the poem is so good is that it makes God so bad”
A
Empson
1965
7
Q
“Gods punishment for satan is a display of sorcery rather tha an act of divine justice”
A
Evans
1973
8
Q
“Satan is the only heroic figure in the poem …Adam is pathetic”
A
Carey
2017
