Paradise lost critics

McColley

'[Mitton] broke the stereotypical scapegoating of Eve as essentially a temptress and uniquely gave her responsible motives for her independent movements on the morning of the Fall.'

Edwards

Adam "has already fallen before he eats the fruit because he has decided to eat the fruit and that is the action that matters. Eating is just a formality"

Moore

If he had allowed himself to think things through he would not have fallen at all."

Wittreich

“adam has been given exactly what he asked for, his equal"

Empson

‘Milton thought that men ought to control women'

C. S. Lewis

‘Milton's satan is… an object of admiration and sympathy'

Flesch

‘Satan never sustains the iconoclasm that makes him admirable because it exists side by side with a desire to be the worshiped icon."

Brew

“Disobedience is not heroic—it is a rejection of the cosmic harmony Milton crafts."

Howard

“The Fall happens through language before it happens through action."

Fish

The Fall is a “fall into subjectivity”

Fish

“Milton consciously wants to worry his reader to force him to doubt the correctness of his response”