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Volpone/PL AO3
Different readings for Section B - Volpone and Paradise Lost Bk 9
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| “comedies […] gratify impulses which we normally have to repress” | T. G. A. Nelson – satire on the legal system in Volpone |
| “Eve fell through Pride […] Godhead is the true destiny, and Godhead is what she thinks of when she eats” | C.S. Lewis |
| “Eve’s position is not just secondary, but powerless, passive, a fact that she is painfully aware of” | Peter Herman – but is Eve truly “passive”? |
| “How many things in Volpone are eaten! […] The final food is man” | E.B. Partridge |
| “Jonson attempts to generate moral impulses in his audience by dramatising a world which has lost all ability to do so” | Andrew Hiscock |
| “Jonson was imitating the words but not necessarily the sentiments of his classical predecessors” | Jacob Blevins – Carmina V a love poem to Lesbia |
| “She who thought it beneath her dignity to bow to Adam or to God, now worships a vegetable. She has at last become primitive in the popular sense” | C. S. Lewis |
| “That which I am unable to do as a man, […] I am able to do by means of money” | Karl Marx, 1844 – link with restorative power of gold in Volpone |
| “The play reveals a world where a man who is nothing but roles has no shape or place in the divinely ordered universe” | Peggy Knapp – “divinely ordered universe” is questionable |
| “the serpent is […] disguising intricate tangles of persuasive deception as simplicity” | Peter Weston – link with Satan’s trivialising of act of eating Fruit |
| “Volpone’s desire for Celia is motivated less by heteroerotic lust than by the pleasures of role-playing, shape-changing” | Mario DiGangi |
| According to ???, Milton was “of the Devil’s party without knowing it” | William Blake |
| ??? argues that that reason for Eve’s fall is her “levity” and “triviality of mind” | E. M. W. Tillyard – however does this not simplify her motivations rather too much? |
| ??? suggests that Mosca functions as a Vice figure | Glynne Wickham – however he himself is culpable of over-reaching |
| ??? links both texts, arguing that both Jonson and Milton “induce a sympathetic understanding of villainy without sentimentalising the villain” | Gordon Campbell |
| ??? argues that “The reading experience becomes the felt measure of man’s loss” | Stanley Fish – we fall for same Satanic tricks as Adam and Eve (this seems more plausible than Empson’s arguably blinkered viewpoint) |
| Volpone and Mosca knelt to ‘pray’ on “Dear saint, / Riches, the dumb god, that giv’st all men tongues” | Elizabeth Freestone’s 2010 production of Volpone |
| In Volpone, “Competitive masculine energies are displayed by most of the major characters” | Ronald Huebert |
| Volpone is a “sardonically alert criticism of [the] accumulation” that marks capitalism | L. C. Knights |
| Milton explores “woman’s secondness, her otherness, and how that otherness leads inexorably to […] her exclusion from the garden of gods” | Sandra Gilbert |
| The serpent coiled around Eve in an erotic caress | William Blake’s 1808 watercolour painting of the Fall |
| “the reason why the poem is so good is that it makes God so bad” | William Empson’s atheist interpretation of Paradise Lost |
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