In “The White Devil” by Webster and “Paradise Lost Boox IX” by Milton there are a handful of characters that are driven by ambition. These characters often make foolish decisions to achieve their goals‚ often with consequences. Both Webster and Milton present ambition as a positive motivation but show that being over ambitious for personal gain has detrimental effects. In “The White Devil” Webster presents Flamineo as the most ambitious character in the play. He is driven by the personal goal of
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http://www.tlrp.org/pub/documents/Gough%20RB%2078%20final.pdf (Accessed 20 March 2012). Harvey‚ M. (2012) Hodkinson and Macleod’s argument‚ Gage’s paradigmatic wars and an example of a plausible research question in the relevant context: Task C‚ TMA 02‚ Milton Keynes‚ The Open University. Kearsey‚ J. (11 October 2011) ‘Research questions’‚ forum message to Tutor group forum. Kearsey‚ J. (10 February 2012) ‘A review of research paradigms’‚ forum message to Tutor group forum. Kemmis‚ S. (1988) ‘Action
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work‚ Milton represents the events of the Creation and the Fall of Man‚ but he focuses more on Satan’s actions rather than on those of or Adam and Eve. In trying to make his poem sound more tragic‚ assuming that that was his intention‚ Milton consciously placed Satan at the centre of the poem‚ making him the hero‚ or more accurately‚ the anti-hero‚ and turning Satan into a metaphor for the ultimate sinner. In all epic poems‚ the hero is placed at the center of reader’s attention‚ and Milton places
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at least once in their lifetime‚ has been an advocate for the bad guy; whether it would be Heith Ledger‚ playing the Joker‚ verses Batman or the innocent Satan verses the tyrant God. John Milton does a fantastic job in letting his audience observe Satan in a new manner that one has not analyzed before. Milton portrays Satan as the most likable character in Paradise Lost‚ yet he is thought of being the foulest individual in the social realm. Satan stands above the rest of the characters in the poem
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John Milton is one of the greatest stars in the sky of English literature. He is mostly known because of his well-known masterpiece “Paradise Lost”. Though some critics state that Shakespeare was more powerful than him‚ but making comparison between a playwright whom by the use of his powerful pen became famous and rich‚ with a literary man who wrote the greatest English epic‚ is not true and justifiable. My purpose of writing this research paper is to criticize his world-famous elegy – Lycidas
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TMA01 With reference to what you have learnt about City Road‚ outline some of the differences across time and space on a street that you know. With reference to the materials I have studied‚ I am going to compare the similarities and differences between City Road and Spring Bank‚ Hull. Spring Bank is a street full of different identities and has many uses from different transport‚ people and shops to the night time life that’s around. Spring Bank in Hull‚ is a street of very familiar
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In Paradise Lost‚ John Milton reinterpreted the first three chapter of Genesis‚ describing the rebellion of Satan‚ the creation of humankind and the downfall of the human ancestor whose descendants await for the salvation of God’ son. The theme of the poem was made clear in Book I‚ “I may assert eternal providence‚/And justify the ways of God to men.” (I.25-6). Though the entire poem is filled with religious significances and abstract theological perspectives‚ Milton was still able to build a
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Manichaean universe‚ the “infinum malum” necessitated by a “summum bonum” which is God. To combat this theory came the doctrine of the early Church which sustained that evil had no real being but was merely “privatio boni”‚ a privation of good. Milton‚ on the other hand‚ presents evil as real and isolated in a
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due to the church’s opinion on this topic. John Milton‚ English poet‚ used his epic poem Paradise Lost to present the story of the Fall of Adam and Eve in a way people of his time‚ seventeenth century‚ had never been exposed to. Throughout the story‚ we are enthralled with the revengeful attributes of Satan and the loving‚ forgiving‚ and even punishable attributes of God. Milton doesn’t present the character God until Book 3. In lines 80-134‚ Milton presents his audience with the idea of predestination
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depict the evil involved in it. In writing Paradise Lost‚ John Milton recognizes this fact and uses a variety of literary techniques to stress the evil in the story over the good. The techniques used include a series of parallels with the parallel between good and evil being first and foremost as well‚ as symmetry to keep the poem in balance. Paradise Lost is a poem essentially about the origin of sin and evil‚ as a result‚ Milton presents evil in a more coercive manner than good. Satan
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