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Question 1

'Satan is more moral than God'

Accepted Answer

"Milton's devil as a moral being is... far superior to his God" - Percy Shelley

Question 2

'Milton hates women'

Accepted Answer

"a Turkish contempt of females, as subordinate and inferior beings" - Dr Johnson

Question 3

'Milton had a super traditional view of gender roles'

Accepted Answer

"He thought women made only for obedience, and man only for rebellion" - Dr Johnson

Question 4

'Eve acts like Milton in defying danger'

Accepted Answer

"principles very like Milton's own move Eve to decline to let Satan's threat intere with their liberties" - Diane K. McColley

Question 5

'The imagery is cosmic'

Accepted Answer

"imagery suggestive of vast size" - T.S. Eliot

Question 6

'Satan reveals how heroic ideas are stupid'

Accepted Answer

"by measuring Satan against the heroic standards, we become conscious of the inadequacy and fragility of all the heroic virtues" - Barbara Lewalski

Question 7

'Self obsession is Hellish'

Accepted Answer

"preoccupation with self... forms the cornerstone of the infernal city" - John H Steadman

Question 8

'Satan makes heroism bad'

Accepted Answer

"The Satanic image is not simply an illusion but a perversion of true heroism" - John H Steadman

Question 9

'Satan is heroic because he wins'

Accepted Answer

""Devil is properly his Hero, because he bests the better" - John Dennis

Question 10

'Not supposed to be any hero'

Accepted Answer

"He that looks for a Hero... searches for that which Milton never intended" - Addison

Question 11

'Satan's selfishness contrasts with selflessness'

Accepted Answer

"lust of self in opposition to denial of self" - Coleridge

Question 12

'Satan lies to everyone including himself'

Accepted Answer

difficult to "distinguish his conscious lies from his blindness" - C. S. Lewis

Question 13

'We like Satan because we share his faults'

Accepted Answer

"A fallen man is very like a fallen angel" - C. S. Lewis

Question 14

'Milton ruins Satan rather than Satan ruining himself'

Accepted Answer

"[Satan] does not degenerate; he is degraded" - Waldock

Question 15

'The Fall is caused by free thinking'

Accepted Answer

"Adam and Eve fall because they think honestly for themselves as free beings, and out of love" - Dr Sean McEvoy

Question 16

Milton is pro-men

Accepted Answer

Milton exemplifies a patriarchal tradition - Gilbert and Gubar

Question 17

'Hand holding shows their good marriage'

Accepted Answer

"The joining of their hands... suggest unity and fidelity in marriage" - Jing-fen Su

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