Desire - Paradise Lost and White Devil
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- Created on: 25-05-15 16:08
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- Desire
- power e.g. wealth/knowledge
- Flamineo: 'O Gold, what a god art thou!'
- Eve: 'I grow mature in knowledge, as the Gods'
- Rhetorical question 'to us denied this intellectual food, for beasts reserved?'
- Adam pluralises 'Gods'
- 'Pure' characters
- Cornelia: 'because we are poor, shall we be vicious?'
- Lowenstein: 'Adam and Eve remain unfallen until the fall itself'
- It's consequences
- Personification of earth: 'muttering thunder' and 'some sad drops wept'
- The real story WD is based on, Flamineo is innocent - but still get's killed
- Flamineo's dying monologue: 'my life was a black charnel'
- 'O happy they that never saw the court, nor every knew great man but by report.'
- Vittoria: 'My soul, like a black ship in a black storm, is driven I know what whither'
- 'O my greatest sin lay in my blood - / now my blood pays for it'
- 'blood' - synecdoche for family/heritance
- usually interpeted as 'my greatest sin lay in my sexual passion
- Christina Luckyj: 'could also mean 'higher temper, mettle', so Vittoria maintains her spirited self-defence'
- After eating fruit: 'try to hide their guilt and dreaded shame!'
- 'If women do breed man she ought to teach him manhood'
- 'Th'art a noble sister - /I love thee now.' - caesura
- Structuralist: WD is a revenge tragedy
- Epic poem: Milton more interested in moralistic, Christian heroism
- "better fortitude of patience and heroic martyrdom unsung"
- Lust
- PL: 'carnal desires inflamed'
- 'In lust they burn'
- 'she him as wantonly repaid' - before fall plants 'with wanton growth derides'
- Francisco: 'both rot together'
- C. S. Lewis: Adam fell through 'uxoriousness'
- Monticelso calls Vittoria 'true material fire of hell' juxtaposition with 'Cold Russian winters, that appear so barren'
- 'In lust they burn'
- Women
- Eve came from 'a lifeless rib' (suffixed with less emphasises her little value)
- repitition of 'whore' in Monticleso's monologue
- Lawyer: 'none should sit upon thy sister but old whore-masters'
- 'were there a second paradise to lost this devil would betray it' - ambiguity as to who the devil is
- PL: 'carnal desires inflamed'
- power e.g. wealth/knowledge
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