Paradise Lost Interpretations

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C.S.Lewis
'Adam fell by Uxoriousness'
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William Blake
'Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and Gods and at liberty when of Devils and hell'
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William Blake
Milton was 'of the Devil's party without knowing it'
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Lovelock & Dyson
'In Satan, we have the determination to take good and turn it into evil'
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Milton
'To justify the ways of God to man'
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Bierman
'Eve is not inferior to Adam upon creation, she is actually equal to him for she is made from the same flesh as he'
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Berman
'Milton shows Eve's progression from an independent woman to a dependent woman to show that women are not submissive'
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Shelley
'Milton's devil as a moral being is... far superior to God'
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Dennis Saurat
Paradise Lost shows the 'necessity of freedom to enable man to discover his true self and realise his potential'
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Sean McEvoy
'Jealousy then motivates the fallen Eve's desire to make Adam fall'
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Sean McEvoy
'Satan is figured as a sleezy seducer'
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Empson
'Milton genuinely considered God in need of a defence'
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Bon Linn
Eve 'is superior to Adam only in her beauty'
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William Hazlitt
'Satan's ambition was the greatest, and his punishment was the greatest'
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Iannuci
'Satan speaks for freedom but from an autocratic viewpoint'
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Milton
Adam is a hero of 'patience and heroic martyrdom'
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'Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and Gods and at liberty when of Devils and hell'

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William Blake

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Milton was 'of the Devil's party without knowing it'

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'In Satan, we have the determination to take good and turn it into evil'

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'To justify the ways of God to man'

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