Paradise Lost Critics (AO5) Flashcards Preview

Poetry and prose > Paradise Lost Critics (AO5) > Flashcards

Flashcards in Paradise Lost Critics (AO5) Deck (9)
Loading flashcards...
1
Q

Lisa Coar critic

A

All women are judged for displaying an appetite as they long been “haunted by the hunger of Eden’s infamous apple eater”

2
Q

Barbara Lewalski critic about Satan

A

Describes Satan as being surrounded by “epic matter and motivations” and is the true hero of the text

3
Q

William Empson critic (about Milton’s god)

A

Said that there is something “badly wrong” about Milton’s God. Rather than “justify(ing) the ways of God to man” he only makes God seem “less wicked” than traditional Christian presentations

4
Q

Chloe Blatt critic about Christian influence

A

Milton “Seeks to redefine classical heroism in Christian terms”

5
Q

Voltaire critic (love)

A

“In all other poems love is represented as a vice; in Milton only it is a virtue”

6
Q

CS Lewis critic about the fruit

A

Through giving Adam the fruit Eve commits “murder”

7
Q

CS Lewis critic about Adam

A

“Adam fell by uxuriousness” (excessive attachment to, or dependence on, a wife)

8
Q

David Reid critic on the fall

A

“Error is a lapse of the mind and, like nonsense, cannot be understood”

9
Q

Tillyard critic about Adam and Eve’s happiness

A

Milton “fails to convince us that Adam and Eve are happy” they “are in the hopeless position of old age pensioners enjoying perpetual you5”