Critical Perspectives Flashcards
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Marxism
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Milton’s background as one of the bourgeoise gave him the freedom to write about class structure, but he chose to focus on religion
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Jungism
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- Adam and Eve as ‘The Child
- Their symbolic rebirth after being cast out of Eden symbolises birth, beginnings, and the potential for salvation
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Feminism
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- Eve presented with stereotypical negative traits of women (Narcissism, curiosity, and vainity)
- But Milton also suggest that it was not Eve’s fault, as she was tricked, but Adam knew what he was doing
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Psychoanalytical
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- Satan’s inner conflict (when seeing Eve) represents the inner battle between his id and superego
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Aristotelian tragedy
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Book IX seems to be a self-contained AT, but after this the poem turns to the idea of destiny
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Nietzschean
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John Locke
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- Milton’s presentation of Satan as a rounded figure is evidence that he is not innately bad
- Satan’s complex psychology and Eve’s deliberation shows that it’s not nature, but nurture and choices which shape us
