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1
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Blake

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Milton was of the devils party without knowing it

2
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C S Lewis on Satan

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Undergoes a progressive degradation

3
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C S Lewis - what does he consider Eve’s action of giving Adam the fruit

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Murder

4
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Voltaire on Milton’s portrayal of love

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In all other poems love is represented as a vice, in Milton only is it a virtue

5
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What did Dryden say about heroism in 1697?

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Milton would have been worthy of regard as a great poet if the devil had not been his hero instead of Adam

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Shelley on Satan’s morality

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Milton’s devil as a moral being is far superior to his god

7
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What did David Daiches say about sin and virtue? And how does this link to the felix culpa?

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(Milton) explores a daring moral paradox, if we can only resist evil by knowing it, and we can only know it by becoming involved in it, then the innocent are incapable of true virtue, therefore only the morally tarnished can succeed in the struggle for virtue’

Felix culpa - the fall was necessary for true virtue to prevail