1. Dialectic of Argumentation in Paradise lost
Prepared by
Kuvadiya Deepika
M.A.-part(II)
Renaissance literature
Submitted to
Dr. Dilip Barad
Head of English Department
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University,
Bhavnagar.
3. (Adam & Eve)
Adam, well may we labour still to dress
This garden, still to tend plant, herb and flower
Our pleasant task enjoined,but till more hands
Aid us, the work under our labour grow.
(IX,205-12)
Our day‟s work brought to little,though begune
Early, and the hour of supper comes unearned.
(220-5)
Yet not so strictly hath our lord imposed
Labour, as to bedar us when we need
Refreshment, whether food ,or this sweet intercourse
Of looks and smiles ,for smiles from reason flow,
To brute denied, and are of love the food,
For not to irksome toil,but to delight
He made us, and delight to reason joined..
(235-43)
4. (Eve & Satan)
each Tree in the Garden we may eate,
But of the Fruit of this fair Tree amidst
The Garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eate
Thereof, nor shall ye touch it, least ye die.
Queen of this Universe, doe not believe
Those rigid threats of Death; ye shall not Die: [ 685 ]
How should ye? by the Fruit? it gives you Life
To Knowledge, By the Threatner, look on mee,
Mee who have touch'd and tasted, yet both live,
And life more perfet have attaind then Fate
Meant mee, by ventring higher then my Lot.
5. Debate between Eve and Satan was Pivotal moment
Power of rhetoric language
Mastery in Debate
Reasons were polluted by false argument
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7. Cited Work
Milton, John. “Paradise Lost”. The Broadview
Anthology of British Literature.
Hunter J. K.. „‟Paradise Lost‟‟.
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