I don't really understand how 'feminism got set back fifty years' when Paradise Lost was written, and thus relevant to the points of views of the time, in or around 1650-1660. It, and literature like it, is an important part of our society. Whilst the fairly anti-female views within the poem are no longer considered modern, that in itself is a concept still relevant to culture today. Not to acknowledge where we have made mistakes in our past is to doom ourselves to repeat the same mistakes in the future. No literature is ever truly "obsolete," even if some things about it seem absurd to us
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Your complaints are already responded to within the text I wrote. The problem is not that Milton includes misogynistic material, it's that the misogynism BECOMES the material. I am not saying that feminism was set back to the year 1615 because this is published in 1665, I'm saying that I'm surprised people in the modern day accept this kind of text without questioning it. And that last point is significant because a piece of literature may have its historical importance, but it doesn't truly "stand the test of time" unless people of the times continually test what it stands for
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Thanks for your response. I also find that the idea that everyone is entitled to an opinion to be a truism, and that the opinion is only worth as much critical thinking that goes into the opinion. Perhaps my review is not the best opinion, or the most well thought out, but I'm okay with that because I don't see this forum as a place to publish, but a place to rant
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