Paradise Lost & Duchess of Malfi - AO5 Love And Gender

Question 1

John Knox 1558

Answer 1

’ The nature of female rule is un-natural’

Question 2

William painter - The palace of pleasure 1560

Answer 2

’ Shee did set hir minde on hym, of fantasy to Mary him,

Question 3

John Milton-doctrine of divorce 1643

Answer 3

“bashful muteness of a virgin may oft-times hide all the unloveliness and natural sloth which is really unfit for conversation’

Question 4

Voltaire - 1759

Answer 4

‘“In all other poems love is represented as a vice; in
Milton only it is a virtue’

Question 5

Samuel Johnson 1779

Answer 5

. [Milton shows a] ‘contempt of females’ , as ‘subordinate and inferior beings’

Question 6

Pole 1893

Answer 6

[Julia is] ‘designed as a set-off to the Duchess; as
an instance of unholy love in contrast to the chaste
love of the Duchess’

Question 7

C.s Lewis 1942 x2

Answer 7

‘Through giving Adam the fruit Eve commits “murder”’
‘Adam fell by uxoriousness’

Question 8

Rabkin 1968

Answer 8

[The Duchess’s marriage to Antonio is] ‘wilful and
irresponsible’

Question 9

Gilbert & gubar 1979

Answer 9

‘The Miltonic problem of the fall [is] a specifically female dilemma’

Question 10

Lee bliss 1983

Answer 10

[The Duchess] seeks private happiness at the
expense of public stability.

Question 11

Jankowski 1990

Answer 11

‘The Duchess abandons her duties of ‘body politic’
for those of her ‘body natural’ and for this she has to die’

Question 12

Nanci lamb roider 2005

Answer 12

[The Duchess of Malfi] ‘is a cautionary tale, which
shows what can happen when women marry without proper consent”

Question 13

Iannucci 2009

Answer 13

‘They are the tragic couple. They fall, but fall together’

Question 14

Kate aughterton 2013

Answer 14

assume a patriarchal control over her body and
sexuality, an assumption which extends over her
political state’

Question 15

Carey 2017

Answer 15

Eve is ‘ more intelligent.’