Love and Desire

Question 1

P1: Love as a pure emotion- TDOM (Point)

Answer 1

Both PL and TDOM highlight instances where the characters experiences moments of true love and peace.
In TDOM, the Duchess and Antonio enjoy blissful moments in their marriage, highlighting that true love is possible without the interference of others

Question 2

P1: Love as a pure emotion- TDOM (Evidence)

Answer 2

my rule is only in the night
I mush have another

Question 3

P1: Love as a pure emotion- TDOM (AO3)

Question 4

P1: Love as a pure emotion- TDOM (AO5)

Answer 4

Bliss- ‘the Duchess’ chooses private happiness over public stability
Callaghan- Duchess’ remarriage is ‘not dynastic but erotic’

Question 5

P1: Love as a pure emotion- PL (Point)

Answer 5

Similarly in PL, Adam and Eve enjoy the tasks of taking care of the Earth together and in doing so they get closer to one another

Question 6

P1: Love as a pure emotion- PL (Evidence)

Answer 6

garland created for eve
in his care and matrimonial love

Question 7

P1: Love as a pure emotion- PL (AO3)

Answer 7

Ephesians 5 says that they should be of one flesh- marriage is a union
Milton says two people should join together because they make each other feel complete like a conjugal fellowship

Question 8

P1: Love as a pure emotion- PL (AO5)

Answer 8

William Blake’s illustration 5 depicts them in a loving way as they lay in each others arms

Question 9

P2: when love becomes tainted by sinful desires TDOM (Point)

Answer 9

Both TDOM and PL shows the effects of relationships especially when they become consumed with sinful desires
In TDOM, Antonio and Duchess turn away from God in trying to defend their marriage

Question 10

P2: when love becomes tainted by sinful desires TDOM (Evidence)

Answer 10

this jesting with religion
feigned
feigned pilmigrage
our lady of lereto shrine- v.important religious setting- located in Italy, thought to have been the place where Mary was born
the lack of God’s presences in their marriage would be seen as blasphemous as it was not done in the Church

Question 11

P2: when love becomes tainted by sinful desires TDOM (AO5)

Answer 11

Kerrignham- What is most remarkable about the Duchess is her faith’- DISAGREE

Question 12

P2: when love becomes tainted by sinful desire PL (Point)

Answer 12

However, for Adam and Eve, they experience the c corruption is post-lapsarian fall, contracting the purity of their relationship prior

Question 13

P2: when love becomes tainted by sinful desires PL (Evidence)

Answer 13

carnal desire inflaming
in lust they burn
love was not in their books

Question 14

P2: when love becomes tainted by sinful desires PL (AO3)

Answer 14

Augustine theologians distinguish between the evil of carnal concupiscence from which man who is born therefrom contracts original sin, and the good of marriage., they commit concupiscence

Question 15

P2: when love becomes tainted by sinful desires PL (AO5)

Answer 15

Callaghan says, women are Romantic critic Dr Samuel Johnson says, ‘Human passions did not enter the world before the Fall’.

Question 16

P3: forbidden love TDOM (Point)

Answer 16

Both TDOM and PL discusses the excitement of forbidden love which leads to its self-inflicted downfall.
IN TDOM, the Cardinal and Julia engage in an affair which is blasphemous as the Cardinal is meant to be pious and Julia is married. Therefore the act of this infedility exposes the abuse of love and its implications

Question 17

P3: forbidden love TDOM (Quotes)

Answer 17

i pray thee, pray with me
fingering

Question 18

P3: forbidden love TDOM (AO3)

Answer 18

Cardinal as ‘cursed example’- embody stereotrypes of cruel hyprotical corrupt Catholics as articulated in Martin Luther’s Ninety Five These in 1517
Milton belived in the access of divorce as she wrote the The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce in 1643 which argued for divorce based on espousal incompatibilty

Question 19

P3: forbidden love TDOM (AO5)

Answer 19

McLuskie says the Cardinal description of their affair ‘highlights only the satisfaction of his sexual prowess’
sex with Cardinal and Julia in Julia Whittaker version in 2024

Question 20

P3: forbidden love PL (Point)

Answer 20

Although the Devil and Eve don’t engage in a sexual affair like the Cardinal and Julia, it can be argued that Eve allows herself to become seduced by Satan’s physcalities and words

Question 21

P3: forbidden love PL (Evidence)

Answer 21

licking the ground whereon she trod
crested aloft, carbuncle her eyes

Question 22

P3: forbidden love PL (AO3)

Answer 22

bestiality= sin

Question 23

P3: forbidden love PL (AO5)

Answer 23

Stanley Fish- ‘satan’s charisma tempts the reader the same way it tempted Adam and Eve’
Worrall- ‘the phallic and tumescent qualities of the serpent’
Gilbert- ‘fatal seduction’