Example Paradise Lost and The Duchess of Malfi Essays
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, Both Milton and Webster explore how rank and social status are enemies of happiness within
their texts. In his 1667 epic poem, Paradise Lost, Milton retells the Fall of Mankind with an aim to
promote obedience to God, during a time of political and religious instability, as a result of King
Charles I’s tyranny followed by Oliver Cromwell’s republican government. Similarly, Webster’s
1612 Jacobean revenge tragedy details the murder of the Duchess and Antonio due to their love
that is forbidden because of his inferior status. Both writers demonstrate how the characters that
ignore or fixate on the importance of rank and status face punishments.
Marked as:
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28/30
Red: quotes
Purple: critics
, Both Milton and Webster explore how rank and social status are enemies of happiness within
their texts. In his 1667 epic poem, Paradise Lost, Milton retells the Fall of Mankind with an aim to
promote obedience to God, during a time of political and religious instability, as a result of King
Charles I’s tyranny followed by Oliver Cromwell’s republican government. Similarly, Webster’s
1612 Jacobean revenge tragedy details the murder of the Duchess and Antonio due to their love
that is forbidden because of his inferior status. Both writers demonstrate how the characters that
ignore or fixate on the importance of rank and status face punishments.
