Outsiders Flashcards
(24 cards)
P1: Outsiders wish to be part of the majority TDOM (Point)
In DOM, Bosola is a malcontent, who hates how the ruling class has treated him. However, he endeavours to become like those who abused him in the hope that he would raise his standing in society.
P1: Outsiders wish to be part of the majority TDOM (Evidence)
‘It seems you would create as one of your familiars’
‘I would hang on their ears like a horse leech till I were full’
‘I am your creature’
‘Whose throat must I cut?’
P1: Outsiders wish to be part of the majority TDOM (AO3)
His character is a symbol of the class disparities and his reliance on the patronage system.
Reminiscent of Sir Francis Walsingham who acted as a spy and collected information and stopped assassination plots against Elizabeth I
P1: Outsiders wish to be part of the majority TDOM (AO5)
Bosola ‘participates in the viciousness and self-seeking of the world he is against’ David Gunby, a 20th-century critic
P1: Outsiders wish to be part of the majority PL (Point)
Even though, Satan reminisces of the times when he was an angel of high standing, he loathes God and the world he has created and wishes nothing more than to destroy it.
P1: Outsiders wish to be part of the majority PL (Evidence)
‘all good to me becomes bane’
‘constrained to bestial slime’
‘bent on man’s destruction’
P1: Outsiders wish to be part of the majority PL (AO3)
Satan is a machiavellian character a term coined by Niccolo Machiavelli, a 15th-century Italian philosopher who said ‘It is better to be feared than loved’ and ‘the end justifies the mean’
P2: Women as outsiders TDOM (Evidence)
‘marriage is some entrance into a prison’
‘purge infected blood’
‘lusty widow’
P1: Outsiders wish to be part of the majority PL (AO5)
Determination to take good and turn it into evil- Julian Lovelock
P2: Women as outsiders TDOM (Point)
In DOM, the Duchess is regarded as an outsider due to her femininity and her wish to be married. In defying patriarchal standards perpetrated by he brothers, she subjects herself to abuse by her brothers who are a microcosm of the male-dominated society.
P2: Women as outsiders TDOM (AO3)
reminiscent of Queen Elizabeth who was called the Virgin Queen who refused to get married
reminiscent of the Duchess of Suffolk who married Richard Bertie, her butler
P2: Women as outsiders TDOM (AO5)
Dymphna Callaghan says the othering of the Duchess is ‘repeating the historic transgression of Eve’
P2: Women as outsiders PL (Point)
Similarly, in PL, Eve is isolated due to her decision to subvert the patriarchal and divine order of the pre-lapsarian society. This is highlighted through the punishment she receives from God which ultimately attacks her womanhood.
P2: Women as outsiders PL (Evidence)
thine shall submit to thy husbands
painful childbirth
P2: Women as outsiders PL (AO3)
Joseph Swetnam, a 17th-century critic said ‘Women are crooked by nature’.
the painting by Fransico Bayeu shows Eve to be reprimanded by Adam through his pointing of his finger and her cowering before him
Milton was originally married to Powell, who deserted him after 2 months of marriage. After 3 years, she begged him to take him back by going on her knees and he took her back. Clearly, she needed subjugation to take her back.
P2: Women as outsiders PL (AO5)
Diane Mcolley, 20th century, says Milton broke the stereotypical scapegoating of Eve
P3: The reasons for outsider TDOM (Point)
In DOM, Antonio is a lower-class figure who marries above his social class, making him an outsider in a corrupt aristocracy. Ultimately, his ambition leads to his downfall.
P3: The reasons for outsider TDOM (Evidence)
o my unworthiness
the royal blood of Aragon and castle be thus attainted
A slave, that only smell’d of ink and counters, / And ne’er
in’s life look’d like a gentleman,” [3.3.72-74].) This anger specifies
cross-class rivalry, and the debasement by occupation marks the intensity of the aversion
P3: The reasons for outsider TDOM (AO3)
The Lord of Misrule was a carnivalesque figure who was of a low status, chosen to reside over feasts and festivals for a day, which alludes to Antonio as he subverts the heirachy
P3: The reasons for outsider TDOM (AO5)
Ferdinand is a threatened aristocrat says Frank Whigham
P3: The reasons for outsider PL (Point)
Similarly, Satan’s efforts to break the divine hierarchy lead him to cast out of heaven and become the arch-enemy of God.
P3: The reasons for outsider PL (Evidence)
to me shall be glory sole among
he rode with darkness- the complete antithesis to God
P3: The reasons for outsider PL (AO3)
the Great Chain of Being, published in 1745 by Charles Bonnet shows that his subversion of hierarchy dooms him
Milton uses the character of Satan to represent Oliver Cromwell who was against the monarch Charles I and defeated him in a civil war. However, he became very unpopular for getting rid of Charles I which made him an outsider.
P3: The reasons for outsider PL (AO5)
Gudic and Khan, 20th-century critics argue that ‘it is obvious that Satan was Oliver Cromwell’- Cromwell was against the monarch and became Lord protector in 1653. Even though he refused to take title as King, he retained many of the same powers.
