Religious/Authority Figures: PL

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Nya Mills

Cards (8)

  • "Our great forbidder" = what Eve calls God; epithet for God
  • “God set thee above her” = God's rule establishing social hierarchy between men & women
  • "The threatener" = Satan's epithet for God
  • "The most high eternal father" = Epithet given to God; displays his power & authority
  • Milton believed  God was his 'natural superior' & that Charles II was not." – C.S Lewis
  • “The reason why the poem is so good is that it makes God so bad” = William Empson
  • “Eating the apple represents a rebellion against patriarchal society” = Stocker
  • AO3: Charles II
    • Tyrant
    • Did not allow parliament calls
    • Imprisoned Milton in 1660 post restoration