Death Ao3 PL DOM

Question 1

Death in Paradise Lost

Answer 1

-allegorical character Death
-metaphorical death : immortality
-epic poem~describes death
-puritan~ Milton believes in life after death
-Milton wrote PL when he was old

Question 2

Death in Duchess of Malfi

Answer 2

-tragic genre means characters have to die
-play genre therefore acted out on stage
-Webster’s religion status is unknown
-Webster was young

Question 3

Plague

Answer 3

Rapid death - omnipresence of death
Fear of death
1609/10 had massive plague waves

Question 4

“The next two years (1609 and 1610) witnessed several severe outbreaks of bubonic plague in English towns

Answer 4

Sheesberry 1970

Question 5

Last rite

Answer 5

The last opportunity to repent sins and confess - crucial in catholic doctrine for the soul’s salvation

Question 6

Bosola: “I would sooner eat a dead ______ taken from the soles of the feet of one sick of the p_____, than k___ one of you

Answer 6

Bosola: “I would sooner eat a dead pigeon taken from the soles of the feet of one sick of the plague, than kiss one of you

Question 7

Ferdinand: “find him in great b______ or c_____ plagued with ______

Answer 7

Ferdinand: “find him in great battles or cities plagued with plague

Question 8

Duchess: “my curse hath a great way to go- Plagues that make lanes through l______ f_______

Answer 8

Duchess: “my curse hath a great way to go- Plagues that make lanes through largest families

Question 9

Great Plague of London

Answer 9

1665-1666
Killed 100,000 people (almost a 1/4 of London’s population) in 18 months

Question 10

Samuel Pepys

Answer 10

October 1663- recorded a major outbreak in Amsterdam & feared it will reach England.
2 years later he writes in his diary again “to my great trouble, hear that the plague is come into the city”

Question 11

Samuel Pepys- “marked with r__ c____ on doors”

Answer 11

Samuel Pepys- “marked with Red Cross on doors”
Shows that they are religious. The plague was believed to be a punishment sent from God so by proving their religion they were safe

Question 12

“Nobody but poor w_______ in the streets”
“Little noise heard day or night but t_______ of bells”
“I am come almost to think n_______ of it”

Answer 12

“Nobody but poor wretches in the streets”
“Little noise heard day or night but tolling of bells”
“I am come almost to think nothing of it” - Samuel Pepys was desensitised to death

Question 13

Religious uncertainty

Answer 13

-England’s oscillation between Protestantism and Catholicism in the preceding Tudor Period (changed under ruler)
-anxiety about afterlife
-concepts of purgatory, heaven, hell and mortal sin
-high illiteracy of the Renaissance meant doom paintings were all over church to show the consequences of sin (hell)
-eschatology: part of theology concerned with death, judgement and final destiny of mankind

Question 14

Milton is described as “most medieval of all the great writers of the Renaissance”

Answer 14

1918 Ramsay

Question 15

Death (character) represents what?

Answer 15

Death represents the ultimate penalty for sin

Question 16

Book 7 / death foreshadowing

Answer 16

Death is warned by God to Adam.

“Thou mayest not; in the day thou eatest, thou diet; Death is the penalty imposed; beware, … surprise thee, and her black attendant Death”

Question 17

Unholy trinity

Answer 17

Rebellion (Satan), moral corruption (Sin) Consequence (Death)

Question 18

sin and death provide the poem with a way to compel the reader to seek the interpretation of death

Answer 18

Jennifer C. McElroy

Question 19

Stanley Fish

Answer 19

Personification of Sin and Death forces the reader to confront realities of sin and consequences

Question 20

The Four Horseman , The apocalypse (1498)

Answer 20

White Horse- conquest
Red Horse- war
Black horse- famine
Pale horse- death