ENG303H1 Lecture Notes - Pathetic Fallacy, Foreknowledge, Areopagitica
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Negative comparison of satan vs god, prove what"s greater/good. Anthropomorphism give human characteristics/traits to nonliving abstract animals/government/structures like god. Idea of lowering greatest gesture god can offer. Ingrate focus for unease of milton"s god: 96hee and his faithless progenie: whose fault, 97whose but his own? ingrate, he had of mee, 98all he could have; i made him just and right, Unexercised/easy virtue, adam would be artificial without reason areopagitica. Man needs reason and free will to be real man. Why god takes pleasure from obedience and why people need to prove themselves. Amsen milton"s god bad because xtianity bad. 113thir maker, or thir making, or thir fate, 117thir own revolt, not i: if i foreknew, 120so without least impulse or shadow of fate, 123both what they judge and what they choose; for so. 124i formd them free, and free they must remain, 125till they enthrall themselves: i else must change. 129the first sort by thir own suggestion fell,
