Marlowe and Milton Flashcards
(134 cards)
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Adam’s love for Eve?
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‘Loss of thee would never from my heart’
‘Go, for thy stay not free, absents thee more’
‘To loose thee were to lose myself’
‘Fondly overcome by female charm’ (to eat fruit = milton is ridiiculing adam, he is controlled by his wife, should be other way loool bant!!)
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Adam’s intellectual superiority?
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‘Whose higher intellectual more I shun’ (Satan)
‘His wish (is to find) us asunder’
‘Reason is free and reason he made right’ *
‘Force upon free will hath no place here’ *
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Adam blaming Eve?
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‘That from her hand I could expect no ill’
‘This fair defect of nature’
4
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Adam’s self awareness that he has done wrong?
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‘In me all posterity stands cursed’
‘The source and spring of all corruption’
‘Unable to perform thy terms too hard’
5
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What is Satan known as?
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‘Antagonist of Heav’n’s Almighty King’ (Sin)
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Satan as an antihero?
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‘By night he fled’
‘He fell a monstrous serpent on his belly prone’
‘Terrified he fled’ (from God’s wrath)
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Satan as a hero?
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‘Thou art their author and prime architect’ (Sin) - usually God is known as author of creation! Milton = challenging God’s authority = evoking Satan’s authority?
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Satan’s evil?
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‘Rebel to all law
‘All pleasure to destroy’ (when seeing Eve)
‘Bent on man’s destruction’
‘But the hot hell, that always in him, burns’ (hell = state of mind)
‘His fraudulent temptation thus began’
‘For only in destroying I find ease to my relentless thoughts’ *
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Satan’s love for Eve?
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‘Fawning and lick’d the ground whereon she trod’
‘Queen of this universe’
‘Much the place he admired, the person more’ *
‘Sovereign of creatures, universal dame’
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Satan’s deception?
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‘Hovering and blazing with delusive light’
‘New part puts on and as to passion moved’ (‘putting off human to put on gods’) *
‘As when of some old orator renowned, in Athens or Free Rome’ *
‘Instrument of mischief’ *
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Satan’s suffering?
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‘Thus he resolved, but first from inward grief’
‘He fell a monstrous serpent on his belly prone’
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Satan’s like a monarch?
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‘Here thou shalt monarch reign’
‘Their emperor’
(could be Charles I??)
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Eve prelapsarian - bored?
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‘For while so near each other thus all day’
‘Let us divide our labours’
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Eve prelapsarian - far too naive?
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‘Eve our credulous mother’
‘Into her heart too easy entrance won’
Solicited her longing eye’
15
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The Fall being like a rape?
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‘Rapine sweet bereaved his fierceness’
- male gaze
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Eve - postlapsarian - idolatrous?
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‘Not without song each morning and due praise’
ANTI GOD’S 10 COMMANDMENTS:
‘I am the Lord thy God and thou shalt not have any strange Gods before me’
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Eve - postlapsarian - greedy?
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‘Greedily she engorged without restraint’
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Eve - postl - selfish?
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‘Render me more equal and perhaps sometime superior’
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Eve -postl - disingenous?
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‘Deprived thy presence, agony of love till now’ *
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Eve - postl - lack of purity?
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‘Defaced, deflowered and now to death devote?’ (ADAM)
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Eve - postl - shame?
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‘To whom sad Eve with shame nigh overwhelmed’
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Why did Eve fall?
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‘Thy pride and wandering vanity’ (ADAM)
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Eve - postl - submissive to A?
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‘At his feet fell humble and embracing them’
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God’s omniscience?
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‘For what can scape the eye of God all seeing’
- bit scary m8
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God's clandestinity?
'Eternal father on his secret cloud'
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God's callousness?
'Heat scarce intolerable... decrepit winter'
- A&E punishment for ambition
- surely god cannot be revengeful tho...
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Tested traits?
'What is faith, love, virtue unassayed, without exterior help sustained?' (E)
link to Milton's areogpagitica 1644: 'I cannot praise a fugitive clositered virtue, exercised and unbreathed'
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Imitation in words of A?
'Lest by some fair appearing good suprised, she dictate false' *
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Sexism?
'For nothing lovelier can be found in a woman than to study household good' (ADAM)
'Hung drooped unsustained'
'My only strength and stay'
'He over thee shall rule' (son of G)
'Adorned she was indeed, and lovely to attract' (son of G = eve's beauty = fall)
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Edward Le Comte?
'The faith and morals...were... in common with the men of his time and those of preceding periods'
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Mortality on A & E?
'For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return'
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The Fall?
'She pluck'd, she ate, Earth felt the wound'
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What eating fruit can do?
'Opened and cleared, ye shall be as gods'
'Putting off human, to put on gods'
'Growing up to godhead'
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Cause of fall?
'But strange hath been thy cause'
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REASON: A V E?
'Reason is free and reason he made right' (A)
'Our reason is our law' (E)
- either makes u free
- or becomes a law unto urself
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Satan: COB?
he has become to where he is by:
'Ventring higher than my lot'
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What has fall done?
'Good lost and evil got'
'Their eyes how opened and their minds how darkened'
'To guilty shame he covered, but his robe uncovered more' *
'Deserved to fall' (milton)
**** 'And from his presence, hid themselves, among the thickest trees' *
'I heard thee in thy garden... afraid, being naked, hid myself'
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What is Eve eating fruit?
A hedonistic display of ambition
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Effects of Fall on Garden of Eden?
'Calm region once and full of peace, now tossed and turbulent'
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Paradise change due to fall?
PRELAPSARIAN PARADISE: 'Walled garden'
| POSTLAPSARIAN PARADISE: 'Fenceless world'
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The fall is like a seduction?
'He, in the serpent, had perverted Eve'
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Remorse and contrition of A&E?
'Pardon begged, with tears watering the ground'
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Satan freedom CRITIC?
'Satan seems to speak for freedom, but from an autocratic viewpoint' (Armando Iannuci)
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Kantorowicz, King's Two Bodies?
1957
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Eve preoccupation CRITIC?
'Eve is secretly preoccupied with questions of equality' (Sandra Gilbert)
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Milton's views on woman? CRITIC
'Milton had a... contempt for woman'
'Saw them as subordinate and inferior'
(Dr. Johnson)
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Why did A&E fall? CRITIC
"Adam fell by uxoriousness, Eve fell by pride"
| C.S Lewis
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Milton exemplification? CRITIC
'Milton exemplifies a patriarchal tradition'
| Gilbert and Gubar
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Milton on Satan? CRITIC
"Milton certainly excites compassion for Satan"
Satan is: "first and foremost the moral hero of the poem"
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Satan dichotomy? CRITIC
"Satan is either a destructive villain or a tragic hero"
| Anna Baldwin
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What is the fall? CRITIC
"The fall... the triumph of passion over reason"
| Milner
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Poem is so good? CRITIC
"The reason why the poem is so good is because it makes God so bad"
William Empson
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Milton and devil nexus? CRITIC
"Milton was of the devil's party without knowing it"
| William Blake
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Why are we seduced by Satan? CRITIC
"Just as our forefathers were"
| Stanley Fish
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Satan's temptation? CRITIC
"Satan's whole temptation is rhetorical persuasion"
| Neil Forsyth
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Cromwell?
1653-1658
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Secretary for Foreign Tongues?
1649
| Made pamphlets frequently and therefore had the tools to make Satan's rhetoric persuasive and guilefukl
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Civil War?
1642-1651
| Parliamentarians won - Cromwell in state
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When did Milton go into hiding?
Restoration, 1660, Charles II (1660-1685)
| Slandering the Monarchy and refusing to give up his republican beliefs
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Milton's religion?
Puritanism
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Who could Satan be like?
Charles I
Executed in January 1649, for treason
Known as 'tyrant, traitor, murder and public enemy'
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What is Satan a victim of?
His own pride
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What is PL?
A literary epic :O
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What is pandemonium?
A demonic parliament
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ESSAY PLAN?
1. POINT
2. EVIDENCE
3. EXPLANATION
4. CRITIC
5. CONTEXT
6. LINK
7. DIFFERENCE
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When was Edward II first published?
1594
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Full title of Edward II?
The Troublesome Reign and Lamentable Death of Edward II, King of England, and the tragical fall of proud Mortimer
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Marlowe: spy life?
Privy Council, 1587:
| He was engaged with "matters touched the benefitt of his countrie"
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Reign during Edward II?
Elizabeth I
1558-1603
PROTESTANTS
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Marlowe: gay?
'Supposably engaged in sodomitical actions and relations'
| Baines Note, by double agent Richard Bains said that Marlowe sneered at anyone who didn't love 'tobacco and boies'
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Robert of Reading: Edward's relations?
Robert of Reading in Flores Historiarium
Edward entered into 'illicit and sinful unions'
- early 14th century
- w Gav lol
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What is Edward II play known as?
'The first great depiction of same-sex love for the stage'
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Gaveston's love for Edward?
'My knee shall bow to none but the king'
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Gav: Deception?
'Yet it is no pain to speak men fair'
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Use of sexuality to create manipulation?
'I must have wanton poets, and pleasant wits... that... may draw the pliant king which way I please'
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Gav: low status?
'Base and obscure Gaveston' (Lancanny)
'Vile torpedo' (Morty)
'Purging the realm of such a plague' (Morty) - about ed
Epithets: 'minion' 'peasant' 'slave'
'A lofty cedar tree, fair flourshing, and by the bark a canker creeps me up' (Morty)
+ canker = weed, parasite on royal tree of england
+ ed = tree
+ gav = weed
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Gav: ambitious?
'I will be revenged on him for my exile' (Coventry)
'Venom of amibitious pride' (Morty)
'Like that Phaethon, aspir'st unto the guidance of the sun'
- phaethon = son of sun god Helios, wanted to drive fathers chariot near sun, too ambitious, burnt and died for being too ambitious - foreshadow gav?
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Ed: loves Gav?
'Embrace me Gaveston as I do thee' (in front of Nobles = body naturraaaaal bby)
'Either die or live with Gaveston' (either he'll argue with nobles or cause war, to 'either...')
'To whom right well you knew our soul was knit' - plato symposium, love = people have 1/2 of one another
'The king is lovesick for his minion'
'I'll come to thee; my love shall ne'er decline'
'For your sakes a thousands wrongs I'll take'
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Ed: abusing authoritative titles?
"I here create thee Lord High Chamberlain, Secretary to the State and Men, Earl of Cornwall, King and Lord of Man'
easiness of getting titles - PL
'putting off humans to put on gods'!!! (Satan)
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Ed: social status?
'Yet shall the crowning of these cockerels affright a lion'?
| - when nobles threaten rebellion/overthrow
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Ed: emotion?
'My daily diet is heart-breaking sobs'
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Queen Isabella known as?
She Wolf of France - avarice or greed
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Izzy: Subordinate to men?
'Fawn not on me French strumpet, get thee gone'
- strumpet = prossy or promisicious woman
'Ye must grow so passionate in speeches' (morty)
'Cease to lament and tell us where's the king? (morty)
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Why did Ed and Izzy marry?
Partnership 4 political reasons
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Izzy: emosh/sacrifice?
'And so I am for ever miserable'
| 'I will endure a melancholy life and let him frolic with his minion'
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Izzy: hypocrisy?
'Unnatural wars where subjects brave their king' BUT
'He's gone by the water unto Scarborough, pursue him quickly' (to morty and warwick)
'To ease his grief bear him this witness of my love' (matrevis)
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Izzy: suffocation in marriage?
'Those arms that twined about my neck'
| - marlowe: immorality of hetereosex relations?
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Mortimer: ambition?
'What, Mortimer, can ragged stony walls immure thy virtue that aspires to heaven?'
'The king must die, or Mortimer goes down'
'I seal, I cancel, I do what I will' (lool hubris morty)
'The queen and Mortimer shall rule the realm... and none rule us'
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Hubris
Excessive pride/ self confidence
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Morty: fortune thoughts?
'Major sum quam cui possit fortuna nocere'
| I am too mighty for fortune to harm
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Morty: realisation?
'There is a point to which when men aspire they tumble headlong down' (after Ed 3 says yo u gotta die dude)
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Morty: bitter?
'Let no man comfort him if he chance to weep'
| 'Fear not to kill the king, 'tis good he die'
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Lightborn: deception?
"To murder you, my most gracious lord? Far is it from my heart to do you harm" (Lightyboy)
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Homosexuality in Marlowe?
"Diablo! What passions call you these?" (Lancaster, after Ed's speech on his love for Gav = homosexuality is a sin of the Devil)
"For riper years will wean him from such toys" (toys = Gaveston) Morty Snr
"Is it not strange that he is thus bewitched?" Morty Snr
"The mightiest of Kings have had their minions" Morty Snr
"One jewel I have left, recieve thou this" To Lightborn
- same sex desire takes him right up till death
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Anti Christian in Marlowe?
"Why should a king be subject to a priest"
| - support by Elizabethans
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Social imbalance in Marlowe?
"Can kingly lions fawn on creeping ants?"
PEMBROKE
- Kingly lion = Ed
- Creeping ant = Gav
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Anger in Marlowe?
{Mortimer draws to Gaveston} Ed: "Treason, treason! Where's the traitor?"
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Temporal nature of kingship?
'Tis but temporal that thou canst inflict
WARWICK
- Ed only has power on Earth
- No authority in heaven/hell
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Wheel of Fortune and realisation?
"All live to die, and rise to fall" Baldock
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Kings Two Bodies?
```
Ernst Kantorowicz
1957
"Two kings in England cannot reign at once"
- body politic
- body natural
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ESSAY PLAN FOR M&M?
1. POINT
2. EVIDENCE
3. EXPLANATION
4. CRITIC
5. CONTEXT
6. LINK
7. DIFFERENCE
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What is sodomy?
A number of 'unnatural' sexual acts
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Sodomy: critic
Sodomy was a 'crime' in Elizabethan England
| Alan Bray
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Edward and Mortimer link?critic
Edward II and Mortimer "demonstrate the dangers of excessive or misdirected power and ambition"
KEENAN
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Marlowe: chaos?Critic
The play "vividly dramatises the chaos resulting from the violations of the proper order"
Deats
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Gender in Ed 2? Critic
Edward and Isabella are "androgynous characters who explode gender stereotypes"
Deats
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Class in Ed 2?
Everything to do with...
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Mortimer development?
TREACHERY
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Gaveston's use of homosex
- destructive
| - empowering
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Ops of Gav?
Sexual criminal
| Traitor
111
Gaveston's manipulation?
- actively
- maliciously
- manipulating the king with his sexuality
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What is Isabella victim of?
A patriarchal society
Forced marriage
Unfaithful husband
SIMPLY A VICTIM OF HER CIRCUMSTANCES
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An example of transgression in Ed 2
Isabella: betraying her husband
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Milton ops on transgression?
Milton is FASCINATED by transgression
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Eve is subjected to...
"Male surveillance throughout"
| Iannucci
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Human weakness? EP
Due to love:
Edward to Gaveston
Adam to Eve
Due to ambition/vanity:
Mortimer
Eve
Satan
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Ambition? EP
Due to social status:
Gaveston
Eve
Due to defying higher authority:
Mortimer (King Ed)
Satan (God)
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Power? EP
From authority:
Edward
Adam (being the man)
From overriding ambition and persuasive rhetoric:
Mortimer
Satan
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Deceit? EP
By sexuality:
Gaveston
Satan
By love:
Isabella
Eve
By authority:
Mortimer (has power to decieve as a noble)
A&E (first couple, have the power to do what they want)
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Ruling? EP
By love:
Edward is ruled by his love for Gaveston
Isabella is ruled by 'love'/marriage for Edward
Adam
By defying higher authority:
Mortimer > King Ed
Satan > God
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Sacrifice? EP
Due to love:
Edward - Gaveston
Adam - Eve
Due to ambition:
Mortimer
Satan
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Similarities & opposites? EP
Due to authority:
Gaveston (power to persuade)
Satan (power to persuade)
Due to inferiority in marriage:
Isabella
Ed
Due to ambition:
Mortimer
Satan
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Women? EP
Inferior on surface:
Isabella
Eve
More powerful deeper down:
Isabella
Eve
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Imitation and copy? EP
Imitation of higher authority:
Gaveston (titles) and Mortimer
A&E; want to be like gods
Imitation of love:
Edward > Isabella
Eve > Adam
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Love? EP
Illegal unnatural love:
Ed and Gav
Satan and Eve
Heterosexual trapped love:
Isabella and Ed
Eve and Adam
Love for abstract things, authority:
Mortimer
Satan
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Emotion? EP
Due to love:
Edward
Isabella
Eve
Due to ambition:
Mortimer
Adam
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Restraint? EP
Due to love/marriage:
Isabella
Eve
Due to social status:
Gaveston
Satan
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Morality of sexual relationships?EP
Immoral on outside:
Ed and Gav
Eve and Satan
Lack of morality in heterosexual:
Isabella and Ed
Adam and Eve
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Effects of rank and status?EP
Unhappiness:
Edward
Eve
Extreme ambition:
Mortimer
Satan
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Loss and suffering? EP
Due to ambition:
Edward
Eve
Due to love:
Isabella
Adam
Due to social status:
Mortimer
Satan
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Truth and secrecy? EP
Truth:
Ed
Eve (to her desires)
Secrecy:
Mortimer's deception
Satan's deception
132
Thought and reflection? EP
Due to ambition:
Mortimer
Eve
Adam
Due to love:
Isabella
Ed
Adam
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Obsession? EP
Due to love:
Edward
Adam
Due to gain power:
Mortimer
Satan
Due to ambition:
Gaveston
Eve
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Vanity and selfishness? EP
Due to ambition:
Mortimer
Eve
Satan
Due to love:
Edward
Adam
