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Quiz Paradise Lost

This document contains a student's answers to two questions on an exam about John Milton's Paradise Lost. For the first question, the student summarizes the five elements of the plot of Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden that are alluded to in the first five lines of Paradise Lost. These elements include the disobedience, the forbidden fruit bringing death, their extreme punishment of losing Paradise, waiting for a savior, and the possibility of regaining Paradise. For the second question, the student explains that the "Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme" refers to Milton asking the Muse to inspire him to write an epic poem about a subject that has not been written about

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Quiz Paradise Lost

This document contains a student's answers to two questions on an exam about John Milton's Paradise Lost. For the first question, the student summarizes the five elements of the plot of Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden that are alluded to in the first five lines of Paradise Lost. These elements include the disobedience, the forbidden fruit bringing death, their extreme punishment of losing Paradise, waiting for a savior, and the possibility of regaining Paradise. For the second question, the student explains that the "Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme" refers to Milton asking the Muse to inspire him to write an epic poem about a subject that has not been written about

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Quiz 3

Instructor’s Name: Areej Farooq


Date: 8th June, 2021
Student’s Name: Neha Aslam
ID: L1F19BSEN0111
Section: C

Q1. The first five lines of the Paradise Lost allude to the Biblical story of Adam and Eve
and their expulsion from Paradise. What are the five elements of the plot that Milton
reinforces? Give reference to the text.
6 Marks
Answer: The first five lines actually allude to the Biblical story of Adam and Eve and their
expulsion from paradise in the following way of the events those had come in their way:
First of them was reason behind their expulsion that could be considered as an exposition to the
whole story that they had been disobedient to the God and had gone to eat the fruit of the
forbidden tree, and it is mentioned in the following line 1 from the text:
“Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit”
Moreover, the rising action starts from where the fact had been shown that that fruit had a mortal
taste that means it had for mankind the idea of dead. They could be subjected to death if they had
tasted it as a means of their punishment in the line 2-3 of the poem as follows:
“Of forbidden tree whose mortal taste,
Brought death into the World and all our woe,”
In the latter lines, line 4, the extreme punishment had been levied on them for being disobedient
that they had lost their garden in paradise and were sent to the world after they had eaten this.
Moreover, there also lies climax in this lines that they had to wait for a man who could help them
understand why they were sent to the world in the following line:
“With loss of Eden, till one greater Man”
This greater man in the bible is said to be Jesus Christ who helped the mankind understand that
they had been sent to the world to serve humanity, pray to God and even to accept what had
happened in order to wait for the right time to help them get rewarded for that in the line 5 as
follows:
“Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,”
Here lies the resolution to the whole story that they were not left alone in the world as well, but a
greater man like Jesus was sent to them who could help them cherish their live in the world and
that they could win the paradise again if they had made good deeds in the world.
Q2. What are the ‘Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme’? 4
Marks
Answer: While we know that Milton asks the Muse to grant him that grandeur that could make
him write a sort of poetry that would have not been written by the poets in the past, so from this
line, ‘Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme’ he exclaims to write about something that could
cause him to compose a poem that could be something new of the old times, or something that
could be uncommon to the other poets and readers. However, he wants to write something that
had not been written in any form or tool until now. This shows that he wants to surpass the other
great epic poets like Homer and Virgil. He also wants to write in a way that he had not seen by
any other poet being a sort of person who is to become productive enough in his talent. And he
asks the Muse (the goddess who was responsible to instill in the creative voice of a person) so
that she could help him get more and more; and even new and creative ideas of writing his epic.

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