Love/ marriage -m/pl Flashcards
Nyquist
-deeply masculinist assumptions [are] at work in Milton’s articulation of a radically bourgeois view of marriage
McColgan
that Milton’s universe is a humanist vision founded upon “reciprocity,” hierarchy, and an “idyllic, dynamic relationship”
woodbirge
The duchess is a champion of desire
Roider
The play is a cautionary tale / shows what can happen when women marry without proper consent
Luky j
shows how whore does not exhaust the psychological reality of women
Whigam - Ferdinands ‘love’
‘When Ferdinand looks down into his sister’s “dazzling” eyes, he sees himself, faces his own death too
Dussinberre
Ferdinand’s hallucinations in his madness are not more weird than the dark web of lust which he weaves round his sister, seeing in her the epitome of medieval frai
Summers
human sexuality in Paradise Lost as previously occupying the “crown of mutual love” but is now “reduced to naked appetite” // lust is “ is opposed to love, for it inevitably implies an [sic] humiliation of its sexual object”
Peter
“Adam falls ‘fondly’—foolishly, lovingly. And we fall with him, sharing his generous improvidence, trusting his love” - ‘fondly overcome in female charm’
Haber
- “the Duchess’s attempt to construct and control her own body, to create a circular, ‘feminine’ space that is free from invasion” – is invaded the male sexuality, her borthers possesive love