Characters Flashcards
Redcrosse
- red cross on tunic & shield
- virtuous
- dreaded, but dreads no one
- horse: animal passions, wild-he struggles
- armour of Christ (banged up)
- inexperienced (never used weapons)
- “seems”-casts doubt, suspision
- on a mission from Gloriana (Queen)
Una
- royal, truth, true church
- virtuous, pure
- riding on a donkey (humility)
- leading a lamb (purity, innocence)
- dwarf follows (common sense, prudence, human reason)
- black veil (sorrow)
Error
-lost in woods: confusion
-cave: Error’s den
-monster
-half serpent, half woman
=Garden of Eden
=attractive at first, then repulsive
-brood/children: drink her blood & explode
=all different, like paths of sin
=spreads quickly, destruction to self
=all Eve’s children (original sin)
-Redcrosse is wrapped up in error, saved by Una’s encouragement
-Vomit
=books & papers: Catholic propoganda (anti-Protestant)
=eyeless frogs & toads: lying agents of the pope
=flesh: martyrs
Archimago
-sire, hermit, old
-seems nice, but turns
-invited RC & Una to stay, but conjures black magic
-religious (Catholic) things
=”beades” rosary
=chapel, “his holy things” Liturgy of Hours
=Ave Mary
Sansfoy
without faith
Duessa/Fidessa
-with pagan knight
-adorned with fine clothes & jewelery, rich
-tells RC her backstory & goes w/ him after her knight dies
-daughter of Emperor
-Fidessa (what she says her name is) faith in the wrong thing
-Two: two-faced, duplicitous
-presentation vs. reality
-beautiful on outside, revolting on inside
-wearing red (lust) & bishop’s mitre
=Whore of Babylon: Catholic (corrupted) church
Lyon
- charges at Una, but stops
- stops by her beauty & truth
- protector fierce, dangerous, majestic, approachable
Sansloy
- without law
- tries to rape Una
- mixing war & love in a way they should not be
Sansjoy
without joy
Sylvanus
king of fauns & satyrs
Satyrane
- raised by satyrs (human law)
- trained beasts: they were afraid of him
- mother captured by a satyr, she gets pregnant, dad wants to raise kid
- raised to be fearless
- noble, warlike, plain, faithful, true, enemy of shame
- 3/4 human, 1/4 goat
Lucifera
- queen, but doesn’t own land, unrightful
- hated lowliness, rich
- very high throne, above everyone
- makes other sins move/go
- daughter of Pluto & Proserpina (death)
- dragon at her feet: opposite of Mary
- holding a mirror, vain
- claims Jove (Zeus) as her father: LIES
- got kingdom by usurpation & tyrrany
- rules w/ politics, not laws, blackmail
- courtiers also vain & proud
