Heroism - mafi/pl Flashcards
White
The tragedy of a virtous woman who achieves heroism through her death’
Sucik on Error
-,’ The Duchess of Malfi is a tragedy of errors that finds its context in an unstable, erratic sense of reality’ ‘he blurs the moral structure of the play and makes it difficult to situate the error’,
Steadman
Yet false the degree to which the entire portrait is a consciously fabricated illusion-an image of an eidolon, a pseudo-hero. (Steadman 254)
The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)
Satan construct of false divinity of earthly rulers.
Writes how - “Tyranny, though it may flourish for a while, is but an empty and temporary thing’ - alike to Satan’s power monarchy finite
Busnell on duchess as martyr
Bushnell -. In her martyrdom, she exemplifies the Christian virtues of suffering and grace.”
Nafi
‘Milton has exposed all those false romantic notions of heroism as egotistical magnificence’ - Nafi
Batt
“milton seeks to redefine classical heroism in Christian terms”
Bloom
“Adam’s fall is the fall of man, but it is also the fall of the heroic ideal of human independence
Orgel on Delio
His role complicates the idea of heroism, showing that in a corrupt society, even the most well-meaning can be powerless.”
Couch
Adam’s final speech in Paradise Lost is a confession that in his fall lies the promise of human salvation, for from this failure, Christ will arisrise’
