paradise lost Flashcards
what does Milton write in his divorce tracts
“the souls union and commixture of intellectual delight”
what is the address which opens a speech called
exordium
what is an exordium
an addresss which opens a speech
who is Delia
Dianna goddess of hunting
what do roses represent
passion and transient beauty
what does myrtle represent
temperance and restraint but also marriage and faithful love
who is Pales
goddess of pasture
who is Pomona
goddess of fruit
who is Prosperina and what did she do
this is persephone and she was taken to the underworld and foolishly eats pomegranates which results in her having to stay in the underworld for half a year.
in what book does satan enter the garden and Milton figures it as a rape
book 4
what is asyndeton
the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence eg. “despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss”
what are the two meanings of mindless
- thoughtless 2. unprotected
where does the word rapine come from
from the latin word and means an act of robbery
what is a chaismum
self reflective phrase
what is blazons
itemising each feature of a woman’s face in a worshipful tone
what rhetorical device is satan using in “god therefore cannot hurt ye and be just”
logical fallacy
what is the garland a symbol of
virginity and fertility
what was the name of Milton’s pastoral elegy
Lycedias
what is the line in the bible where Adam falls
“and Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression” - Timothy
Samson and Delilah
they are biblical characters. Samsons lust overpowers him and his love for Delilah leads to his demise, as Delilah tricks him. The moral of this story is to not let women get in the way of a relationship with god, but also the story shows that if you repent for your sins redemption is possible.
what does the word concupiscence mean
strong sexual desire or lust
what was Milton’s pamphlet against censorship called
Areopagitica
what is Arminianism
essentially you have to prove yourself to god as good etc… it is the opposite of Calvinism, which is what most puritans of the period would have believed in, which is that salvation depended on gods good will.
peripeteia
loosely translated as irony. There is peripeteia in the fact that the fall has an unexpectedly happy ending
harmartia
tragic flaw
anagnorisis
discovery
who sets out the terms of a classical tragedy
Aristotle
idea of christian tragedy
catastrophes must be patiently endured through the help of gods grace, and one must just wait and hope for a reversal. Milton wants the reader to bring forth this reversal
GCB
It becomes a moral imperative for each creature to know its place in the Chain of Being and fulfil its own function without striving to rise above its stations or debasing itself by behaviour proper to the lower links in the chain. For example, gluttony was considered a low and bestial instinct, and so being gluttonous was allowing these lower basal instincts to supersede his divine capacity for reason. (links to when Adam and Eve eat the apple).
what did Saint Paul teach
that the husband should love his wife as Christ loved the church and he should cherish her as his own body - advice meant to protect and honour women.
John Carey
“Milton’s efforts to encapsulate evil in Satan was not successful”
Shelley
“excellent in spite of adversity and torture”
Milner
“the central principles… of obedience and hierarchy”
“the main purpose of the poem is precisely the justification of the ways of god to men”
“meritocratic hierarchy is achieved”
Gilbert
“the story of women’s secondness”
