Milton and Jonson critics Flashcards
Waldock on Eve’s attitude
“she assumed an air of injured dignity” (prelapsarian)
Burden on Adam’s involvement in Eve eating the apple
“By granting his permission Adam becomes involved in what happens to her”
Johnson (1779) on Milton’s attitude towards females
He has a “Turkish contempt of females, as subordinate and inferior beings”
McColley on Eve and evil
Eve refuses “to let the existence of evil destroy the process of a free community”
McColley on Milton’s different portrayal of Eve
“He broke the stereotypical scapegoating of Eve as a temptress and gave her responsible motives for her independent movements”
McColley on Milton’s portrayal of sex gender
“Traditionally ‘manly’ virtues…and ‘womanly’ ones…are not strictly divided between them”
manly = fortitude and reason womanly = sympathy and fidelity
Weston on Eve compromised reason
“Her passions, as a result of flattery, are ruling her reason”
C.S Lewis on Eve’s sin
“the precise sin Eve is now committing…is murder”
Burden on Adam’s soliloquy after deciding to eat the apple
“Adam’s long speech with himself is consequent upon a decision already made, not a prelude to a decision”
C.S Lewis on Adam’s actions
“The only thing Adam knows is that he must hold the fort, and he does not hold it”
Wickham on Mosca’s function
“Mosca functions as a kind of conventional Vice figure often found in medieval and Renaissance literature”
Roston on the language in the rape scene (Volpone)
“The terminology employed in the rape scene highlights the transition from a secular to a religious setting”
Campbell on Milton and Jonson’s ability to portray villainy
They had the “capacity to induce a sympathetic understanding of villainy without sentimentalising the villain”
Knapp on Volpone
“Volpone is a satanic challenger to God’s order and society’s”
Belvins on Jonson and classics
“Jonson was imitating the words but not necessarily the sentiments of his classical predecessors”
