PL/V CRIT Flashcards
V Wickham- mosca
“Mosca functions as a… conventional vice figure”
V Knapp- mosca
Mosca is “nothing but roles”
V Hiscock: - view on world of V
V is a world “without morality”
V Campbell: - characters
Characters= “on one level repugnant”
V Knapp: Volp God
“Volpone is a satanic challenger to God’s order and society’s”
V Hinchliffe: renais
“perversion of Renaissance culture”
V Hiscock generate
aims to “generate moral impuses”
V Steggle: pre-rape
pre-rape: “mood is one of sheer fun”
Tyrone Guthrie’s 1964
- applauded the rape
- replaced wafer with coin in parody of a mass
Campbell: V and PL
Milton and Jonson are able to “induce a sympathetic understanding of villainy without sentimentalising the villain”
Some critics: V’s consequence
Volcanoes’ treatment is too harsh for comedy
Some critics: Volp
“admire him for his daring and panache”
Some critics: V 1 word
“rogue”
V Hinchliffe audience reaction to sin
Audience “participate with glee”
V Leggatt audience blasphemy
“enjoys blasphemy for its own sake”
V Maus: celia
Celia =”strong minded character” “pivotal”
V Hinchliffe celia
Celia = “dull”
V Collins simple plot
V = “a rich man getting richer”
V Hinchliffe Lang :(
audience is “appalled” at the effect of language
V Hinchliffe Land :)
“language is splendidly abused”
V Hinchliffe passion
“passion is not appeased by leisure but only by novelty”
M Carey: evil?
“Milton’s effort to encapsulate evil in Satan was not successful”
M Carey: critics genrally
“Satanist critics generally emphasise Satan’s courage, while anti-Satanists his selfishness”
M Waldock E mood
“Eve wakes in an independent mood”
M Tillyard initiative
“Eve takes and keeps the initiative”
M Peter sexist dickhead
“Adam lets Eve have her way”
M Empson men/ women
“Milton though that men ought to control women”
M Dr Johnson M view of women
m views women as “insubordinate and inferior”
M Gilbert view of women
m presents women as “other”
M McColley un bouc emissaire
“broke the stereotypical scapegoating of Eve as a temptress”
M McColley E motives
Eve has “responsible motives”
M McColley portrait
milton’s is a “loving portrait of Eve”
M Weston E reason/ emotion
“her passions… are ruling her reason”
M Weston E deception
Eve is not “motivated entirely by a calculation to deceive”
M CS Lewis
Eve “murders” Adam
M Burden Adam reason emotion
Adam’s justification is “not reason but rationalisation”
M Fowler Adam is a little crybaby
Adam “wants solace at any price”
M Davies Adam –> Eve
“She was created for him, and he is in love with her”
M Turner Eve ambtion
Eve has “a craving for male supremacy”
