Study Questions
1. Why is Book IX a central part of the epic poem?
2. What constitutes the climax of Paradise Lost ?
3. In what way is Book IX the turning point of the epic?
4. What is Adam and Eve’s tragic catastrophe?
5. How does the reader feel purged of his/her own emotional conflicts through the narrative?
6. Where has Satan been hiding for the last seven days?
7. How does Satan enter Paradise?
8. Why is Eve alone on the day of her temptation and fall?
9. According to the Serpent, what...
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