1. PL Sections for focus Books 1 and 2 Book 3 (lines 1-343) Books 4 and 5 Books 8 through 10 Book 12 (lines 1-649)

2. Winter quarter class Parzival LTWL 172 TuTh 12:30p - 1:50p

3. Milton

4. We know quite a bit about him Marriage Blindness Political involvement

5. PL and Epic Form What is an epic? How does PL engage with this genre? Who is the “hero” in this epic?

6. PL and Epic Convention A look at the opening: “no middle flight” Invocation of the Muse In medias res Epic similes Drawing on other earlier works—page 1839

7. Justify the Ways of God to men Theodicy Questions about the human situation (Danielson) 1. God is all powerful 2.God is wholly good 3. There is evil in the world

8. Milton’s Theodicy Divine providence Free will (III. 98-111)

9. In medias res In hell with Satan, I. 50 ff –Describing Satan: I. 192, I. 283 PL’s dramatic roots –Satan addresses Beelzebub I. 84 Depicting Satan, his followers and hell –Satan, determined never to do good: I. 159 –Wants to continue to “offend”: I. 187

10. The convocation in Hell I.315 How to proceed: II.40-42 Moloch (I. 392; II. 50 ff.) Belial (I.490; II. 109) Mammon (I.678; II.229) Beelzebub (II. 299 ff.) The plot against Man (II.345ff.)

11. Hell and Milton’s Politics Anti-monarchical? Satan as champion of this stance? Satan as hero: http://www.stjohns- chs.org/english/gothic/works/satanhero.ht ml

12. The Topography of Hell Hell as actual place (II. 619) Hell as figurative (à la Faustus) –I. 249ff

13. Satan as Explorer Colonial metaphor: II. 629 ff.

14. Sin and Death Allegory Sin (II.648) Death (II. 667) Unholy Trinity Satan freed from Hell A path to Earth (II. 1024)

15. Invocation Book III Exploration of poetic authority Autobiographical parallels (III. 22) Parallels between narrator and Satan?

16. Free Will Free to fall (III. 97ff) What kind of God is this?

17. Paradise Threatened Satan enters Paradise Important Epic Simile (IV. 180) He sees Adam and Eve (IV. 288) He is jealous (IV. 358)

18. Eve Milton: Misogynist or friend to women? (Married) sexuality in Paradise (IV. 736) Eve’s account of her creation (IV. 450 ff)

19. Eve’s Dream(IV. 800 ff) The Faculties—faculty psychology –Imagination, reason, memory How does Eve experience her dream: V. 10 ff

20. Raphael’s Visit More discussion of free will as God sends him to Eden: V. 224ff and V. 525 ff The War in Heaven related by Raphael

21. Adam’s account of his creation 8. 255 ff He doesn’t quite understand how he comes into being, but assumes a maker (compare to Satan) How does Adam’s account of his creation compare to Eve’s? How does Adam view Eve? (8.546ff)

22. Raphael’s final warning The importance of reason and free will 8. 633 ff.

23. Book 9 Change in tone—another focus on speaker Disdaining Romance (IX. 30 ff.) Satan the explorer once again