Question: Trace Renaissance qualities in the character of Satan as depicted in Paradise Lost, Book I. Or, Show Satan as a Renaissance hero. Answer: The Renaissance was an intellectual, moral and cult…

Question: What is the impact of the first speech of Satan to the fallen angels? Answer: Satan, the most powerful and dominant personality in Book-I of Paradise Lost, appears as the sum-total of stubb…

Question: Comment on Milton's use of similes in Paradise Lost. Book-1. Or, "Milton's similes are like panel pictures built into the great edifice". Discuss with reference to Book I …

Question: Discuss the characteristics of Milton's blank verse. Or, What do you mean by verse paragraph? How does the verse paragraph add to the grandeur of Paradise Lost as an epic? Answer: Blank…

Question: Discuss Paradise Lost as an epic.  Or, What qualities of an epic do you find in Paradise Lost, Book-I? Answer: An epic is a long narrative poem in a lofty style, set in a remote time and pl…

How are the Renaissance and the Reformation elements or the Hellenic and the Hebraic elements blended together in Paradise Lost? or, In what sense is Milton the child of the Renaissance and the Refor…

Question: Make a catalogue of the chiefs of the fallen angels, identified with the heathen gods in Paradise Lost Book I. Or, Comment on the fallen angels who are addressed by Satan in Paradise Lost B…

Question: Comment on the various aspects of Milton's grand style.  Answer: Milton's poetic style has been a matter of great controversy among critics of different ages. Matthew Arnold calls i…

Question: Give Milton's conception of Hell as you find in Paradise Lost, Book I. Or, Give after Milton's Paradise Lost Book I, a description of hell.  Answer: In the opening scene of Paradise…

Question: What impression of Satan do you form from your reading Book I of Paradise Lost? Or, How does Milton portray Satan's character in Book I of Paradise Lost? Answer: Satan stands as the mos…

Question: How far is the Prologue a grand opening to “Paradise Lost"? Or, How far is Milton's Prologue in Book I of Paradise Lost modelled on classical tradition? Answer:  The first twenty-s…