Milton/ In General Critical Voices Flashcards
1
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William Blake
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- ‘Milton was of the Devil’s party without knowing it’
2
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Samuel Johnson on misogyny
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- ‘ A Turkish concept of females, as subordinate and inferior beings’
3
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J.G Turner on love
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- ‘ Milton has succeeded in bringing to life…. Two quite different models of the policy is love’ (equality vs hierarchy/male supremacy)
4
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Charlies William on Miltons depiction of Adam
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- ‘ Milton depicts Adam’s passion so intensely as to make us almost wish that it could be approved’
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Waldock on Milton’s presentation of Satan
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- ‘ he will put some glorious thing into Satan’s mouth and then… will put us gently by the sleeve saying ‘do not be carried away by this fellow; he sounds splendid, but take my word for it’
6
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Stanley Fish on logical reasoning vs faith
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-‘ Eve substitutes the law of reason and the evidence of things seen for the law of God’
7
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Diane K. McCollum on the presentation of Eve
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-‘ He broke the stereotypical scapegoating of Eve as essentially a temptress and. uniquely gave her responsible motives’
