Paradise Lost Questions and Answers
What is the main theme of Paradise Lost?
Why is Satan called the "infernal Serpent" in Paradise Lost?
Describe how Paradise Lost is an epic, and provide 3 examples as to why it is considered an epic.
Explain the significance of the line, “Awake, arise, or be forever fallen!” in the context of Paradise Lost.
The Mind Is Its Own Place
Provide an explanation of the following lines from Paradise Lost by John Milton: "Of Man's First Disobedience and the Fruit / Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste / Brought Death into the World, and all our woe."
What is the message of Adam and Eve's story?
How does Milton explore the theme of appearance versus reality in books 9 and 10 of Paradise Lost?
What is Milton's style and its features in Paradise Lost?
Why was Paradise Lost banned?
Description Of Hell In Paradise Lost Book 1
Why did God cast Satan out of heaven?
Explain these lines from Paradise Lost: "What in me is dark Illume, what is low raise and support; . . . And justify the ways of God to men." What is the significance of these lines?
How does Paradise Lost justify the ways of God to man?
What is the purpose of Paradise Lost?
In Paradise Lost, how does Milton make Satan an attractive character?
What does the title Paradise Lost refer to?
In lines 210–220 of Paradise Lost, Milton offers a solemn assurance that despite all Satan’s power and grandeur, the devil is still subject to God’s purposes. How do these lines contribute a level of dramatic irony to Satan’s ringing assertion of freedom in his final speech (lines 242–270)? Here is the story, http://www.nexuslearning.net/books/Elements_of_Lit_Course6/Renaissance/collection%205/John%20Milton.htm Thanks in advance :-)
Discuss the epic similes employed by Milton in Book 9 of Paradise Lost.
Analyze the character of Beelzebub in Paradise Lost.
What is Satan's tragic flaw in Paradise Lost?
Discuss the autobiographical element in Paradise Lost, books 1–4 and 9–10. Explain with examples from the book.
What are the differences and similarities between Satan and Beelzebub in Paradise Lost?
Explain the significance of this passage within Paradise Lost. Is this passage the description of Satan being punished in the Lake of Fire? Please identify any themes, images, diction, symbols. ... his other parts besidesProne on the flood, extended long and large,Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as hugeAs whom the fables name of monstrous size,Titanian or Earth-born, that warred on Jove,Briareos or Typhon, whom the denBy ancient Tarsus held, or that sea-beastLeviathan, which God of all his worksCreated hugest that swim the ocean-stream.Him, haply slumbering on the Norway foam,The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff,Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell,With fixed anchor in his scaly rind,Moors by his side under the lee, while nightInvests the sea, and wished morn delays ...
Who is Satan's proverbial "right-hand man"?
What is the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution for Paradise Lost?
How does Milton use Epic conventions in "Paradise Lost"?
What was the fruit of the forbidden tree in Paradise Lost?
Epic Simile In Paradise Lost
How does Satan's physical transformation over the course of the poem reveal his character?
What is the significance of Sin and Death in Paradise Lost?
Paradise Lost As An Epic
How does Eve persuade Adam to get the fruit in book 9 of Paradise Lost?
Write a note on Satan's role as a leader in book 1 of Paradise Lost.
How does the story of Paradise Lost differ from the story of God, Satan, Adam, and Eve told in the Bible?
What are some examples of assonance and metaphor used in books 1 and 2 of Paradise Lost?
Compare books 1 and 9 of Milton's Paradise Lost.
How does Satan motivate his fallen angels in Milton's Paradise Lost?
What imagery is used in Paradise Lost?
Why doesn’t Satan regret his punishment in Paradise Lost?
Write an analytical note on Satan's speeches in Paradise Lost by Milton. Excerpt, Book I, Paradise Lost But O how fall'n! how chang'dFrom him, who in the happy Realms of Light [ 85 ]Cloth'd with transcendent brightness didst out-shineMyriads though bright:[...]and till then who knewThe force of those dire Arms? yet not for those,Nor what the Potent Victor in his rage [ 95 ]Can else inflict, do I repent or change,Though chang'd in outward lustre; that fixt mindAnd high disdain, from sence of injur'd merit,That with the mightiest rais'd me to contend,And to the fierce contention brought along [ 100 ]Innumerable force of Spirits arm'dThat durst dislike his reign, and me preferring,His utmost power with adverse power oppos'dIn dubious Battel on the Plains of Heav'n,And shook his throne. What though the field be lost? [ 105 ]All is not lost; the unconquerable Will,And study of revenge, immortal hate,And courage never to submit or yield:
In lines 1-26 of Book I of John Milton's Paradise Lost, how is the speaker ambitious and how is the speaker humble?
What is the name of Satan's palace?
What is Satan’s arguments in logic (logos), influence (ethos), and emotion (pathos) in Paradise Lost?
Describe Satan's character in Book I of Paradise Lost by John Milton.
Why is Satan considered the hero in Paradise Lost?
Do you agree with this comment by William Blake about Milton's Paradise Lost: "Milton was of the devil's party without knowing it." This is in reference to John Milton's poem Paradise Lost, Books 1 and 2.
Provide a complete description of hell according to Paradise Lost.
Why does Beelzebub worry that his eternal life may be of no use to him in Milton's Paradise Lost?
Critically analyze the Hellenic and Hebraic elements in Milton's Paradise Lost.
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