Paradise lost but better Flashcards
Greek Tragedy
Peripateia
“sudden reversal of fortune”
Greek Tragedy
Anagnorisis
“critical discovery”
Greek Tragedy
Hamartia
“tragic flaw”
Satan
Preplanned Slyness
B.9 Prologue
“mediated guile”
Narrator?
Tragic
B.9 5
“I now must change these notes to tragic”
Link to Duchess of Malfi, genre
Satan
Torment (2)
B.9 120, 122
“the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment with me”
“All good to me becomes Bane”
Link to Ferdinand/ Cadinal? Satan cursed to never enjoy peace
Satan
Destroying
B.9 129
“For only in destroying I find ease”
consumed in the thirst for power, the consequence of hubris, Bosola
^ ‘Like Satan, Bosola finds a sense of ease or fulfillment in his role as an agent of destruction’
Satan
Favourite
B.9 175
“this new favourite of Heav’n, this man of clay” [Adam]
link to Antonio, foreshadowing of his fall
Eve
Labours
B.9 214
“Let us divide our labours”
taking iniative to disrupt and develop the social order, Duchess link
Eve
Unearned
B.9 224
“…and th’ hour of supper comes unearned”
supper can only be eaten if work is complete - women are hard working
Adam
Women [miltons views]
B.9 232
“for nothing lovlier can be found In woman, than to study household good”
womans traditional position in society
Adam
Foe (3)
B.9
“malicious foe”
“for he who tempts… dishnour foul”
“seduce angles”
allagory for classism? links to Ferdinands view of Antonio
^ he will corrupt the duchess and their blood
Eve
Test (2)
B.9 335-341
“And what is fate… without exterior help sustained?”
“And Eden were no Eden thus exposed?”
Free will & testing boundaries - D&A. challenge the social order
Adam
Test (2)
B.9 364-366
“seek not temptation then… trail will come unsought”
Duchess tempted by A, betrayal of brothers & consequence of temptation
Narrator
Eve
B.9 457-60
“her Heav’nly form Angelic, but more soft, and feminine, Her graceful innocence”
feminine traits seen as weak, only her apperance is all she’s worth
^A loves D for her wit and disposition not just looks
Narrator
Satan Stupid
B.9 465
“Stupidly good… disarmed of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge”
women as healing, womens power over men (Julia)
Satan
Higher Intellect
B.9 482-5
“Her husband… Whose higher intellectal more I shun”
men are the bigger threat than women, partiarchy
Satan
Ruin
B.9 494
“to her ruin now I tend”
Ferdinand and Bosola link
Narrator
Enemy
B.9 496
“So spake the Enemy of mankind”
Ferdinand/ Cadinal/ Bosola
Satan
Flattering Eve (vanity - 3)
B.9
“Fairest resemblance of thy Maker fair”
“A goddness among gods”
“Empress of this fair world”
blasphemy, sin of vanity and flattery, women are easily won
Narrator - Satan
Deciever
B.9 633
“made intricate seem straight”
Bosola, makes Duchess trust him easily
Satan
Ambition
B.9 690
“by vent’uring higher than my lot”
Great chain of beings, Antonio link
“We ought not to climb higher than our force permiteth” [Painter, 1964]
Satan
Gods
B.9 710
“That ye should be as gods, since I am man”
Great chain of beings, you should move above your means (=punishment)
Narrator
Eve guliable (2)
B.9 734
“Into her heart too easy enterence won”
“his persuasive words, impregned with reason”
womens guilability, link to Julia kissing the book, sexual language
Eve
Friendly
B.9 773
“Friendly to man, far from deceit or guile”
decieved, Bosola deceptive
Narrator
Ate
B.9 780
“her rash hand in evil hour… she pluched, she ate”
rythmic spondee, link to Duchess eating apricots greedily
Eve
Wedding vows
B.9 831
“Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe”
wedding vows, contrast to Duchess and Antonios love
Adam
To die
B.9 906
“And me with thee hath ruined, for with thee Certain my resolution is to die”
D&A willing to die for each other, starcrossed lovers
Adam
One flesh
B.9 958
“we are one, one flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself”
Duchess and Antonio, soulmates
Adam
Female Charm
B.9 !999!
“Against his better knowledge, not decieved, But fondly overcome with female charm”
doesn’t have the same excuse as eve, julia & duchess
Adam
Sin of Lust
B.9 1017
“I see thou art exact of taste, And elegant, of sapientine…”
lust first sin after fall, Antonio & Cardinal
Adam
Evil hour
B.9 1068
“O Eve, in evil hour”
realsing mistake in fall, conscience - Cardinal
Adam
Stayed with me
B.9 1134
“Would thou hast hearkened to my worlds, and stayed With me, as I besought thee”
women should listen to men
Eve
Command me
B.9 1155
“why didst not thou the head Command me absolutely not to go”
women belong to men and should listen to them
Adam
Warned you
B.9 1170
“what could I more? I warned thee, I admonished thee, foretold the danger and the lurking Enemy”
women should listen to men
Narrator
Women overtrusting
B.9 1182
“Thus it shall befall Him who to worth in women overtrusting lets her will rule”
Miltons views - don’t listen to women, misogyny or christian teachings
Eve
Beguiled
B.10 162
“The serpent me begiled and I did eat”
admitting her sin, unlike Adam who blames Eve.
Duchess taking her death with pride
Jesus
Snake punishment
B.10 177
“Upon thy blly grovelling thou shalt go”
“Her seed shall bruise thy head, thou bruise his heel”
(unfair punishment for snake) punishment worse than death
Narrator
Judged
B.10 211
“So judged he man, both Judge and Saviour sent”
Ferdinand and Cardinal choosing the punishment instead of God
