[Milton-L] Eve's curls (reply to William Moeck)

[Marlene Edelstein]

Well he would, wouldn't he? But are we fooled?

believe everything, believe nothing

--- On Sun, 30/8/09, James Rovira <jamesrovira at gmail.com> wrote:

From: James Rovira <jamesrovira at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Milton-L] Eve's curls (reply to William Moeck)
To: "John Milton Discussion List" <milton-l at lists.richmond.edu>
Date: Sunday, 30 August, 2009, 2:59 PM

Do you think it's possible that Milton distinguished between
prelapsarian subjection and postlapsarian subjection, between
subjection under God's order and under Satan's?

Jim R

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 7:47 AM, alan horn<alanshorn at gmail.com> wrote:
> "The purpose of the verbal and emotional oxymora and their
>> counterpart in the image of the curling tendrils may be to sculpt the
>> attitude of the passage."
>
> No, the purpose of the word "gentle" is to prettify and idealize the
> oppressive relations being portrayed.
>
> That is how apologies work. Defenders of slavery in the American South
> did not portray the institution as brutal.
>
> Alan
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