Paradise Lost A04 Flashcards
Example of a good Precise Protestant (Puritan) wife
‘The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby’ 1599-1605
Says many private prayers (at least 6 times a day) and examines her conscience. Spends very little time with her husband. Calls him ‘Mr Hoby’
Genesis Chapter 2
God said ‘you must not eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat it you will surely die’
Civil War
1642-5
Parliament and Puritans against the monarch, Charles I
Patrick Hume
1695 published the ‘Commentary on Paradise Lost’ in order to clarify the Biblical and Classical illusions
Robert Burton
‘Wives are slippery, often unfaithful to their husbands’ 1616
1 Corinthians 11:9
‘Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man’
‘Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man’
1 Corinthians 11:9
De Doctrina Christiana
Means ‘Concerning Christian Doctrine’.
Milton wrote this and it was discovered and published in 1823. It confirms that Milton did not believe that the Son was equal to God and he did not believe that God the Father was in all things omniscient (all knowing).
Milton even argues once or twice in ‘Paradise Lost’ that there are limits to God’s perfection e.g. he confesses to Adam that he is lonely in Book 8
Matthew 6:13
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
Matthew 6:13
In the Bible, women are described as…
‘the weaker vessel’
Aristotle’s tragic hero characteristics
a great or virtuous character in a dramatic tragedy who is destined for downfall, suffering, or defeat
Plato argued that…
reason should rule over desire and appetite
Dr Johnson (18th century English writer) said women are
‘subordinate to men’
