PL/DOM: Religion/Sin

Question 1

“Justify the ways of god to man”

Answer 1

Milton (1667)

Question 2

Milton was “Of the devils party”

Answer 2

William Blake (1790)

Question 3

DOM has “no moral purpose save that for exciting and amusing”

Answer 3

Kingsley (1890)

Question 4

“The reason why the poem is so good is that it makes god so bad”

Answer 4

Empson (1963)

Question 5

Antonio represents the “Christian stoic”

Answer 5

Belton (1976)

Question 6

Satan uses “pure slick advertising”

Answer 6

Moore (2012)

Question 7

Painting of sin as nude + made of snakes

Answer 7

William Hogarth (1697)

Question 8

Painting of satan watching sleeping snake

Answer 8

Gustave Dore (1882)

Question 9

Criticisms of James 1 ?

Answer 9

“Slobbering idiot”
“Tyrant”

Question 10

Italian families?

Answer 10

Borgias
Médicis

Question 11

Borgias?

Answer 11

Spanish noble family
Prominent in Italian renaissance
2 popes
Criminal activity, murder/incest

Question 12

Médicis?

Answer 12

Italian
4 popes
Criminal, Pazzi murder conspiracy

Question 13

Divine right of kings ?

Answer 13

James 1 believed strongly in this
Milton disagreed with this idea

Question 14

James 1

Answer 14

Decadent court
‘Favorites’
Write daemonology

Question 15

Doom paintings

Answer 15

Frightening images of hell
To scare people
High levels illiteracy

Question 16

Protestant reformation ?

Answer 16

Anti catholic sentiment
Depictions of catholic corruption
Allowed individual relationship with god