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REVENGE DOM & PL - Coggle Diagram
REVENGE DOM & PL
3 :explode: DOM: consequences of revenge: Mass deaths, tragic inevitability
Julia: “You have undone yourself, sir.”→ Revenge leads to self-destruction → collapse of the avenger
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Ferdinand: “I could kill her now in you or in myself”→ Revenge destabilises identity → self-destructive impulses
3 🐍 PL: consequences of revenge: humanity falls, Satan gains nothing lasting
Satan: “Revenge, at first though sweet / Bitter ere long back on itself recoils”→ Directly shows revenge as self-destructive and ultimately unsatisfying
Satan: “The more I see / Pleasures about me… all good to me becomes / Bane”→ Psychological consequence → inability to experience joy
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Satan: “Save what is in destroying; other joy / To me is lost”→ Total loss of purpose → identity consumed by revenge
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1 🐍 PL: revenge and control: Satan seeks to corrupt humanity - target A&E as weaker to revenge against God
Satan: “In meditated fraud and malice, bent / On man’s destruction”→ Calculated revenge → power exercised through deliberate strategy
Satan: “Such ambush hid… waited with Hellish rancour”→ Militaristic imagery → revenge as controlled, strategic attack
Satan: “Of hate, of envy, of revenge”→ Triadic structure → revenge central to his identity and motivations
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2 🐍 PL: revenge and deception: Satan disguises himself in a snake, deceit
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Adam: “I warned thee… foretold the danger”
→ Suggests deception operates subtly → not easily recognised
Satan: “the lurking Enemy” (Adam)→ Satan defined by hidden, deceptive presence
CONTEXT:
💥Webster - Corruption of authority - F&C abuse power through deceptive methods - authority as corrupt and self serving: moral decay of those in power - links to 17th century corruption of court under James I = manipulate systems of authority to serve own desires and figures like Bosola mirror the role of court spy = deception - divine rights of Kings and systematic control (body private vs body politic) 🐍Milton - Satan as a deceiver in Biblical tradition, the reads of this period would'v been very familiar with the Bible, the serpent in Genesis is the embodiment of deception - Milton develops it as Satan relies on guile and disguise
- Boethius - God has to let it happen - the revenge to lead to the fall and for humanity to exist
AO5:
Ampleforth - "Satan is the original anti - hero."
CONTEXT:
💥Webster - LITERARY CONTEXT as a revenge tragedy ends in multiple deaths & chaos
- and revenge creates a cycle of violence and escalates uncontrollably
- corruption as 'built in' in Italy and Catholicism
both victims of narrative
- Duchess in a revenge tragedy
- Eve is apart after an established narrative
🐍Milton - futility (uselessness) of revenge
- Satan recognizes it's ultimately self defeating and he gains no true victory and he remains entrapped in misery
- Satan books 1&2 = angel and he falls due to his rebellion against God
- Milton writes in the form of a classical epic
AO5:
Ribner: "The final act is designed to show that the way Arragonian brothers is that of madness and damnation, the complete descent of man into beast." - LINK to when Satan turns into a snake
Revenge: as a destructive force
- Satan vs Bosola/Ferdinand
- Satan takes revenge against against God
- Revenge has dire consequences in other
- revenge as self destructive
- the desire to rise/maintain status
- consequences of hubris
- revenge as endemic
- Satan & Bosola -both malcontents
CONTEXT:
:fire: Webster - Patriarchal control as Jacobean society was male - dominated and women were expected to be obedient and sexually controlled (Duchess challenges this) and the ideas of marriage - Ferdinand's revenge is driven by a desire to control his sisters body and sexuality
Also, revenge tragedy conventions with revenge involving plotting, control and manipulation, characters controlling others eg. Bosola controlled by the brothers 🐍 Milton - Puritan context (self governance) - Milton's puritan beliefs and the importance of self control & moral discipline: Satan represents loss of self control and a desire to dominate others
Political Context: Milton lived through the Civil War: debated about power and authority, linking to Satans desire for control as tyrannical ambition
- Eden is subject to the societal rules and expectations of the 17th Century
- class stagnation
AO5:
Johnson - "women are made only for obedience."
Marcus - "challenges Jacobean assumptions on power, women and marriage."