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Homer, The Iliad
• Hera seduces Zeus by making love with him, so that his enemy, Poseidon, assisted the Greeks
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Plato, The Republic
• “We must contend … that God who is good, is not the author of evil to any man” - God did not make them
miserable by punishing them, but “the bad were miserable because they needed punishment” by God
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Women at the time did not hold ecclesiastical positions or attend universities
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Genesis 2
• Eve is a “helper” for Adam, implying subordination
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The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare
• “Your husband is thy lord, thy life”, Katherina
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Machiavelli, The Prince
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Gonnerill and Regan, Mosca,
Suitors
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• “A wise prince must rely on what he and not others can control”
• “He need only strive to avoid being hated”
• “Fortune … turns her course towards those points where she knows no levees and dikes will restrain her”,
fortune overruns when nothing holds “her” back, but had there been defences and pre-empting fortune

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“A prince who relies entirely on fortune will fail when his fortune changes”
“The prince is successful when he fits his mode of proceeding to the times”
When fortune goes against him, or the mode of the time changes, “there is no man so prudent that can
accommodate himself to these changes because no one can go contrary to the way nature has inclined
him”
“Men will succeed as long as method and fortune are in harmony”
“A prince, therefore, must be different to the charge of cruelty if he is to keep his subjects loyal and united”
“A prince must provide in such way that, in whatever circumstances, the citizens will always be in need of
him and his government
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“It is necessary to provide that when they no longer believe, they are forced to believe”
“It is easy to persuade them … but it is hard to hold them”
“He who causes another to become powerful ruins himself, for he brings such power into being either by
design or force, and both of these elements are suspect to the one whom he has made powerful”

Edmund Spencer, The Faerie Queene
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Erasmus, In Praise Of Folly
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Compared
to Mosca whose flattery is all lies and deception to Volpone
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the folly of following what is normal or right
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• “Appear to be double-tongued” - people pretending they know ancient languages etc, “old and obsolete to
confound their reader”, feigning intelligence
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Thinking people respect their erudite language
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Lear is in a strong position when he divides his kingdom foolishly, and he doesn’t realise he has done
wrong until Regan and Gonerill turn him away and he is faced with the fact he has nothing
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• “Kolakia, flattery” - How Volpone and Mosca are so successful with suitors
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Lear’s speech and rashness
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Dependent on others e
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• “Solace themselves with perpetual youth”, people who turn to folly
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Montaigne
• “pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it
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Milton believed marriage was the chief source of happiness or misery
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Book VII Paradise Lost
• Describes the Earth’s “womb”, reasserting feminine power to the Genesis account
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• “What seemed fair in all the world, seemed now mean” - Testament of Eve’s beauty and Adam’s
romanticism
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• “Led by her heavenly maker”, “guided by his voice” - romantic, mutual and equal, compared to Adam
“seized” Eve after the fall as they fall to bodily lust
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Adam has a duty by God to be with Eve, hence why he
falls with her, he is doing right by God
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• “Som natural tears they drop’d, but wip’d them soon” - resolve
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• “The World was all before them” - positive? Fear? hidden from the world by purity pre-fall
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• “Thir solitarie way” - solitary, but together
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• Use of third person plural pronoun, always together “thir”
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Compare to Adam’s romanticism leading him astray, because that is purely emotional
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• “Cheerfull and agreeable conversation” - the ideal marriage, like what Adam and Eve have at the beginning
as their “casual discourse draw on” to the point where they work less
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• “Mind unreasonably yoakt” - Yoak is the milk-carrier that ties people together
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• “It may befall a discreet man to be mistak’n in his choice”
• “Many who have spent their youth chastly, are in some things no so quick-sighted” - blind in purity
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• “It is lesse pain to conjecture then to have experience”
• “Coequal and homogeneal fire”
John Milton, Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester
• “When faith and love parted from thee never” - Milton is good towards woman, praised them
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• “My Wife, my Traytress”

• “Conjugal affection prevailing over fear” - love still remains, she argues, like Eve argues to Adam
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• “Entangl’d with a poysonous bosom snake” - similar to Eve with Satan become one, poor Adam
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