“Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n.”-Who wrote this?
- A) Geoffrey Chaucer
- B) Christopher Marlowe
- C) John Milton
- D) P.B. Shelley
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Answer: C) John Milton
Explanation
John Milton wrote it. Satan says the line in Book I of Paradise Lost (1667), after he and the rebel angels are thrown out of Heaven, choosing to rule in Hell rather than obey God. Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales, Marlowe wrote Doctor Faustus, and Shelley was a Romantic poet who admired Milton's Satan.
Asked in: BCS 2018