Transgression/ Nature

Question 1

Chris Jenks, Transgression, 2003

Answer 1

“To transgress is to go beyond the bounds or limits set by a commandment or law or convention, it is to violate or infringe”

(Jenks 2003)

Question 2

Paradise Lost, John Milton, 1667

Answer 2

“I was at first as other beasts that graze/ The trodden herb, of abject thoughts and low”

(Milton 2003)

Question 3

Ellen Goodman, 1992, ‘Human Mastership of Nature’

Answer 3

“Raphael celebrates the gradual scale of nature… while portraying Adam and Eve clearly as masters of the hierarchy of nature”

Question 4

TFA, Achebe, 1958

Answer 4

“from the centre of the delirious fury came a cry of agony and shouts of horror. It was as if a spell had been cast.”

(Achebe 2010)

Question 5

PL 2

Answer 5

“Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat/ Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe”

(Milton 2003)

Question 6

TFA 2

Answer 6

“It was a crime against the earth to kill a clansman, and a man who committed it must flee from the land.”

(Achebe 2010)