Satan Critics

Question 1

Keats

Answer 1

(on Satan entering serpent)
‘No passage of poetry ever can give a greater pain of suffocation’

Question 2

Carey

Answer 2

‘[Satan} is superior in character to Milton’s God’
‘Milton’s effort to encapsulate evil in Satan was not successful’

Question 3

M Shelley

Answer 3

‘Milton’s Devil as a moral being is far superior to God’

Question 4

Broadbent

Answer 4

‘The long-term function of Satan is to test our values’

Question 5

P Shelley

Answer 5

‘nothing can exceed the energy and magnificence of the character of Satan as expressed in Paradise Lost’

Question 6

Hazlitt

Answer 6

‘Satan is the most heroic subject that was ever chosen for a poem…and the execution is as perfect as the design is lofty’

Question 7

Martz

Answer 7

‘Milton permitted Satan to develop into a character far more appealing than his overt theology could have allowed’

Question 8

Fish

Answer 8

‘Milton means for us to be seduced by Satan’

Question 9

Forsyth

Answer 9

‘Satan’s whole temptation is rhetorical persuasion’