PL/DOM: Transgression/Punishment

Question 1

“Turning to tyranny…lawfully depos’d and punish’d”

Answer 1

Milton (1649)
The tenure of kings and magistrates

Question 2

Webster was “much possessed by death and saw the skull beneath the skin”

Answer 2

T.S Eliot (1919)

Question 3

Eve commits “murder” in giving Adam the apple

Answer 3

C.S Lewis (1942)

Question 4

Satans punishment is “sorcery rather than an act of divine justice”

Answer 4

Evans (1973)

Question 5

Ferdinand-“impassioned raving”
Cardinal-“cool unemotional detachment”

Answer 5

Lee Bliss (1983) (F+C)

Question 6

Painting of Adam and Eve hiding from gods punishment

Answer 6

Gustave Dore (1882)

Question 7

Punishments ?

Answer 7

Stocks (public humiliation)
Torture to gain confession
Capital punishment - hanging, burning, hung drawn quartered

Question 8

Plague ?

Answer 8

-Many plagues over the years
-An omnipresence of death
-Fear of being unable to confess sins before death, hell

Question 9

Milton’s struggles

Answer 9

“Blind amongst enemies”- PR
Political prisoner/ in hiding
Works are burnt

Question 10

Lycanthropy

Answer 10

-Uncommon idea in England
-Believed that you must understand sin to sin

Question 11

The four humours ?

Answer 11

Blood = passion
Phlegm = deep thinker
Yellow Bile = nasty/bitter
Black Bile = sad/hateful