ENGL 202 Lecture 18: Milton, Paradise Lost (N 2091-2116
25 Dec 2016
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Governments are designed to suite our interests, can be dismantled if they do not. English revolution: to create a new democratic revolution. Paradise lost milton tries to argue against moore: to change the world, you must change the way people think, to milton, this means creating new way of poetics. Necessary for us to feel the perfection of garden of eden, so that we feel that the loss of eden is a good thing. Garden: seen as an ideal place (city, too artificial, wood, too wild) Pe(cid:374)ser"s (cid:862)garde(cid:374) of ado(cid:374)is(cid:863: at the center of this paradise, there is a couple. This couple, is presented very much as real people. They are very active in the garden. They work there, have sex there, eat there, and talk. He prese(cid:374)ts ada(cid:373) a(cid:374)d e(cid:448)e"s relatio(cid:374)ship as se(cid:454)ual. To him, the perfect world has to be bodily, spiritual, sensual, sexual.
