Satan/ sin/ death A05 Flashcards
Shelley
“Milton’s Devil as a moral figure is arguably far superior to his God”/ milton excites compassion for satan’’
Blake
-‘Milton was a true poet, an of the Devil’s party without knowing it’
Fallon
Milton naturally turns to the lesser reality of allegory to present characters who are the negation rather than the expression of substance.’’/ ‘’embodiments of metaphysical evil – the privation of being itself’
Moore
Milton associates the ‘cumbersome’ Catholic church with the corrupt and ‘pontifical’ bridge over chaos made by Sin and Death’
Mitlons Lycidas,
he likens Catholics to hungry wolves leaping into a sheep’s pen’
-link to animalism of sin and death
-instead see protestant ideal how sin is mans fault/fall fortunate
-sin and death have lesser existence as a privation
-all part of gods divine providenc
Augustinan theodicy
Sees evil as privatio boni, the privation of good
Epic Hero
*He is a genuinely heroic figure who cannot bear not being first – pride is the tragic flaw, the original sin. The classic model is Achilles, the flawed hero, but the greatest of heroes nonetheless.
Harmatia - fatal flaw of ambition guides hubrisitc behavior
Steadman
the entire portrait of satan is a consciously fabricated illusion-an image of an eidolon, a pseudo-hero.
Atooshi
Milton shows how the destructive battle over the Chain of Being begins’
Nafi
‘Milton has exposed all those false romantic notions of heroism as egotistical magnificence’