Paradise lost but better Flashcards
(40 cards)
Greek Tragedy
Peripateia
“sudden reversal of fortune”
Greek Tragedy
Anagnorisis
“critical discovery”
Greek Tragedy
Hamartia
“tragic flaw”
Satan
Preplanned Slyness
B.9 Prologue
“mediated guile”
Narrator?
Tragic
B.9 5
“I now must change these notes to tragic”
Link to Duchess of Malfi, genre
Satan
Torment (2)
B.9 120, 122
“the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment with me”
“All good to me becomes Bane”
Link to Ferdinand/ Cadinal? Satan cursed to never enjoy peace
Satan
Destroying
B.9 129
“For only in destroying I find ease”
consumed in the thirst for power, the consequence of hubris, Bosola
^ ‘Like Satan, Bosola finds a sense of ease or fulfillment in his role as an agent of destruction’
Satan
Favourite
B.9 175
“this new favourite of Heav’n, this man of clay” [Adam]
link to Antonio, foreshadowing of his fall
Eve
Labours
B.9 214
“Let us divide our labours”
taking iniative to disrupt and develop the social order, Duchess link
Eve
Unearned
B.9 224
“…and th’ hour of supper comes unearned”
supper can only be eaten if work is complete - women are hard working
Adam
Women [miltons views]
B.9 232
“for nothing lovlier can be found In woman, than to study household good”
womans traditional position in society
Adam
Foe (3)
B.9
“malicious foe”
“for he who tempts… dishnour foul”
“seduce angles”
allagory for classism? links to Ferdinands view of Antonio
^ he will corrupt the duchess and their blood
Eve
Test (2)
B.9 335-341
“And what is fate… without exterior help sustained?”
“And Eden were no Eden thus exposed?”
Free will & testing boundaries - D&A. challenge the social order
Adam
Test (2)
B.9 364-366
“seek not temptation then… trail will come unsought”
Duchess tempted by A, betrayal of brothers & consequence of temptation
Narrator
Eve
B.9 457-60
“her Heav’nly form Angelic, but more soft, and feminine, Her graceful innocence”
feminine traits seen as weak, only her apperance is all she’s worth
^A loves D for her wit and disposition not just looks
Narrator
Satan Stupid
B.9 465
“Stupidly good… disarmed of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge”
women as healing, womens power over men (Julia)
Satan
Higher Intellect
B.9 482-5
“Her husband… Whose higher intellectal more I shun”
men are the bigger threat than women, partiarchy
Satan
Ruin
B.9 494
“to her ruin now I tend”
Ferdinand and Bosola link
Narrator
Enemy
B.9 496
“So spake the Enemy of mankind”
Ferdinand/ Cadinal/ Bosola
Satan
Flattering Eve (vanity - 3)
B.9
“Fairest resemblance of thy Maker fair”
“A goddness among gods”
“Empress of this fair world”
blasphemy, sin of vanity and flattery, women are easily won
Narrator - Satan
Deciever
B.9 633
“made intricate seem straight”
Bosola, makes Duchess trust him easily
Satan
Ambition
B.9 690
“by vent’uring higher than my lot”
Great chain of beings, Antonio link
“We ought not to climb higher than our force permiteth” [Painter, 1964]
Satan
Gods
B.9 710
“That ye should be as gods, since I am man”
Great chain of beings, you should move above your means (=punishment)
Narrator
Eve guliable (2)
B.9 734
“Into her heart too easy enterence won”
“his persuasive words, impregned with reason”
womens guilability, link to Julia kissing the book, sexual language
