Exam PL Flashcards
justifie
Justifie the ways of god to men
if
art could tell
Not that fair field
Not that fair field
Of Enna, where Proserpin gathering flowers
Her unadorned
Her unadorned golden tresses
Dishevelled, wanton
Other creatures
Other creatures all day long
Rove idle unemployed
They garden
They garden
nature failed
nature failed in me
Vs
on her bestowed too much of ornament,
praise rather
praise rather your dauntless vertue
there I had
there I had fixt Mine eyes till now, and pin’d with vain desire
For not to
For not to irksome toil, but to delight
He made us
satan is
‘disarmed’ from ‘his own evil’
Weigh her
Weigh her with thyself. Then value
Aeropagitica
A man cannot choose goodness if he has not had the opportunity to know evil.
Theodicy
the vindication of divine providence in view of the existence of evil.
A theodicy
A theodicy attempts to answer the profound question asked by monotheism, how can a being who is both omnipotent and beneficent allow evil to exist?
In Milton’s theology
In Milton’s theology ‘reason is but choosing’
Virtue consists of
Virtue consists of the ability to make our choices in accordance with the dictates of reason, rather than the demands of passion or appetite, and the absence of that ability is vice
In order for virtue to exist, vice must also be a viable choice
The attempt to remove this choice (banning evil books, forcing women to cover their faces],
They are trying to remove the necessity for choice thus in effect working to erase the divine image from the human soul - doing the work of the devil
Paradise lost
17th cent, epic, blank verse.
henryson quote
Thir twa sinnis, flattery and vanegore
henryson
rewrite of Chaucer’s nuns priests tale. from Robert Henryson’s morales Fabilis, a collection of fables.
