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John Milton (1608-1674) - Coggle Diagram
John Milton (1608-1674)
life
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he learnt Latin, Greek and Italian
after a European tour, he supported Cromwell and his
policy
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works
1st period:
Lycidas, a pastoral elegy (1637).
2nd period:
Areopagitica, a pamphlet about the freedom of press
(1644);
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paradise loss
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the setting
Heaven, Hell, the firmament (Chaos) and Earth;
Milton’s Solar System
Ptolemaic design (also called the geocentric design) rather than the Copernican design (also called the heliocentric design).
Main characters
God the Father, God the Son;
Satan, the powerful, proud angel who led an unsuccessful rebellion against God;
Adam and Eve, the first human beings. Adam is a rational character whose main weakness is his infatuation with Eve;
Rebellious angels, leaders in
Satan’s army.
themes
Obedience and rebellion
Paradise Lost tells the story of Adam and Eve’s disobedience, and describes how and why it happened. It is also the story of Satan’s rebellion.
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Style
Elevated, perfectly suited to the epic genre and
to the theme;
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use of polysyllabic Latinisms, inversions;
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epic conventions
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God, Satan, Man and the fallen heroes: echo the
warriors and the heroes created by Homer;
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