Paradise Lost and Volpone: Critical quotes by theme

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MORALITY - Volpone
'Volpone would arouse moral disdain’ - Creaser
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MORALITY - Paradise Lost
Adam + Eve 'capable of all sorts of virtue' - McColley
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INNOCENCE - Volpone
‘[Volpone] lives to play and is mischievous’ - Creaser
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INNOCENCE - Paradise Lost
Adam and Eve are 'free and responsible agents' - Burden
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WOMEN - Volpone
Celia is 'strong minded' - Maus
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WOMEN - Paradise Lost
Milton shows ‘contempt for females, as subordinate and inferior' - Jonson
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EVIL - Paradise Lost
'effort to encapsulate evil in Satan was not successful' - Carey
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EVIL - Volpone
Volpone a 'satanic challenger' - Knapp
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DECEPTION - Volpone
'blinding himself to his own decrepitude’ - Barton on Corbaccio
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GREED - Volpone
‘‘bird’ characters show and criticize two vices: greed and folly’ - Alonso
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DESIRE
‘all men fall victim to self-deception when they are tempted sufficiently’ – Dorothy Litt
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DESIRE: Volpone
'competitive masculine energies' - Huebert
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FLATTERY - Paradise Lost
Eve's 'passions, as a result of flattery, are ruling her reason' - Weston
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LOVE - Paradise Lost
Adam 'becomes corrupt because he refuses to divorce Eve' - Fowler
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Adam + Eve 'capable of all sorts of virtue' - McColley

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MORALITY - Paradise Lost

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‘[Volpone] lives to play and is mischievous’ - Creaser

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Adam and Eve are 'free and responsible agents' - Burden

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Celia is 'strong minded' - Maus

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