Paradise Lost Language

Paradise Lost Language

1. Sensual/sensory

   • Touch, taste, smell

2. Convoluted speech of Satan

   • Double negatives
   • Use of opposites
   • Appears substantial but is superficial

3. Orthodox speech of Adam

   • Righteousness
   • Religious
   • Rational/food for the mind

4. Subversive language of Eve

   • Rebellious views
   • Challenges hierarchy/gender
   • Radical views

5. Darker imagery post fall

   • In landscape of garden
   • In minds of Adam and Eve

6. Pre/post Fall contrast

   • Honourific pre fall
   • Direct address post fall

7. Language of despair

8. Direct statements made by Milton

9. Sexual imagery/linked to sin and hell

10. Humanistic

    • Sound like humans