'While clearly guilty of lust and murder, these unsavoury characters become startlingly heroic under pressure'...Links Flamineo's cry of 'I do dare my fate to do it's worst' to Romeo's similar protestations
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Heroism - Lewalski
Eve 'goes on to cast herself as romantic heroine'
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Heroism - Frye
'Adam is the opposite of heroic in his choice to fall'... 'Adam should have 'divorced' Eve'
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Heroism - Williams
Adam's passion for Eve is so intense that the audience wishes it 'could be approved'
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Society - Goldberg
The function of law is the suppression of individualism, sexual desire, ambition'
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Society - Hill
'Family was a little church... subordination of the to the husband... figured the lawful soverign's rule over state
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Society - Dollimore
Flamineo 'bears some resemblance to the so called alienated intellectuals of early stuart England'
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Society/Heroism - Flesch
'for Milton, Satan was on the side which saw itself resisting oppression'...'If we are to admire Milton's refusal to idolise the name of King... it is difficult not to admire much of what Satan says to the same purpose'
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Society - Champion
Tragedy emphasises 'both the flaw of the protagonist of those in his society'
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Women - Mccolley
'Milton even saw himself in Eve... in her plea for freedom and a little solitude'...'Milton broke the stereotypical scapegoating of Eve...gave her responsible motives for her independent movements'
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Women - Flannagan
'There is no evidence... that Eve's proper role, according to Milton, is anything other than weak submission'
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Women - Baldwin
'Milton creates parallels between Satan and Eve to emphasis the descent of Eve and further descent of Satan'
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Women - Lewalski
'Milton's epic turns into and Eviad'
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Women - Burden
'The tragedy is more his failure than hers'
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Women/Society - Baldwin
'When Eve demands "inferior who is free?" she falls'
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Women - Lewis
'Eve becomes a thing to Adam'... 'She who thought it beneath her dignity to bow to Adam or to God, now worships a vegetable'
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Women/Heroism - Luckyj
'Women are an exploited group with innate heroic potential'
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Women - Luckyj
Isabella 'exaggerates and caricatures his pose' - in this way she undermines a man by using his language against him
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Women/Heroism - Malin
'We are easily persuaded of her almost heroic status'
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Women/Morality - Malin
Cornelia is a 'rare focus of moral virtue'
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Women/Heroism - Aughterson
Webster's central characters are women'
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Morality - Tynan
'Webster is not concerned with humanity'... 'In the whole of Webster's world scarcely and act is committed which is not motivated by greed, revenge or sexual rapacity'... 'You might say his plays become alive the closer they are to death'
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Morality - Berry
'His plays are saturated with a consciousness of human evil'
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Morality - Luckyj
'Those carrying out the retribution are at least as evil as the original wrongdoers and dramatically much less attractive'
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Morality - Pearson
'the most tragic moments on the whole are the most comic'
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Morality - Blake
Milton was 'of the devils party without knowing it'
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Morality - Lewis
'The sin which Eve is now committing... it's name in english is murder'.'It was the poets intention to fair to evil'.'the satan within each of us is always there and only to ready, the moment the leash is slipped, to come out'.'Eve fell through pride
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Morality - Waldock
'It is not as if she knew exactly what death was'
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Morality - Sewell
Cornelia 'represents the voice of conventional Christian morality'
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Morality - Champion
'any characters with goodness in them are stripped of this goodness'.. Monticelso Act 2 'provides a strong moral undercurrent'... By 3.2 M's actions presented as 'the brute use of position and power to achieve familial vengeance'
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Franklin
'The dramatic techniques of TWD compound all kinds of deceit, disguise, and false rhetoric'
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Ribner
'The play is a dramatic symbol of moral confusion'
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