Paradise Lost AO5

Patrick eco-critical of the fall

marks a profound and irreversible change in the relationship between humans and the environment

Patrick eco-critical of Satan

Satan’s treatment of the serpent foreshadows the exploitation of animals post-lapsarian

C.S Lewis

the ‘precise sin’ Eve commits is ‘murder’ which stems from pride

Milton

free will is the ‘freedom to choose’

Klimt (liberty)

Milton was ‘committed to the idea of intellectual liberty’

Klimt (dilemmas)

Challenges readers to ‘negotiate moral and aesthetic dilemmas’

Gilbert

Eve’s motives are based on dissatisfaction with subjugation and her thought processes demonstrate her flexible mind and a search for independence

Shelley

‘Milton’s Devil as a moral being is as far superior to his God’

McEvoy

‘Modern heroism is… to take responsibility for one’s actions’

Suendson

Adam’s lament was one of the loneliest scenes in literature

Moore

We see the "progressive degradation of Satan"

Burden

‘The tragedy is more his failure than hers’

Kelsey

‘men fell by choice’

Gibney

‘God is represented as a vengeful tyrant’