Paradise Lost

Elucidate the importance of The Fourth Book of Paradise Lost.

Answer: In the Fourth book of Paradise Lost, we are given more insight into the character of Eve and Satan. As Eve narrates her first waking moments after her own creation, we are immediately introduced to Eve’s weakness, vanity. She awakes near a lake and sees an image of herself and thinks the images beautiful.

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Discuss the conflict between good and evil in Paradise Lost, Book-1.

Discuss the conflict between God vs. Satan in Paradise Lost. Answer: In the poem, Paradise Lost Satan was thrown out of heaven for rebelling against God and all that is good. He was the archangel and is the most beautiful and perfect angel, but he was not so perfect because he had flaws. Some of

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Do the speeches of Satan reveal that Milton was of the Devil’s party without knowing it? Justify your answer with reference to ‘Paradise Lost, Book 1’.

Answer: It was William Blake who observed that Milton belonged to the Devil’s party without knowing it. The remark implies that Milton unconsciously glorified Satan, especially in Book 1 of Paradise Lost. This point of view is typical of the Romantic spirit, and it makes Satan the real hero of Paradise Lost. The Romantics admired

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In what sense Milton is the child of Renaissance and Reformation?

Or. Show the blending of Renaissance and Reformation in Milton’s work. Answer: Milton’s work reflects the influence of both the reformation and the Renaissance. The Renaissance and the Reformation had their impact on England in the sixteenth century. Generally speaking, they exerted pulls in mutually opposite directions. Most of the Elizabethans came under the classical

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Give a description of Hell as depicted in Paradise Lost, Book-1.

Answer: In Paradise Lost, Milton gives a vivid’ and effective Picture of Hell. Hell is a place of torment, evoking the quality of sinister wilderness. It is a “dismal situation waste and wild” as Satan realizes on surveying place to which he has fallen. It is the “infernal world” of horrors. The place resembles a

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