Re: (Prussia-centric) hell's a fable; notes
anonymous
December 28 2009, 19:45:54 UTC
allusions, etc, in order; part 1 -Marlowe's Dr. Faustus; "I think hell's a fable"; "Think so still, 'till experience changes your mind." -Both Marlowe and Shakespeare are believed to have had homosexual encounters. -Lucifer and his rebellious angels revolted against the army of Heaven led by Michael - hence the awkward confrontation between Michael and Lucifer before all heaven breaks loose, where the popular condemnation of Luce's pride occurs, where he's stripped of his title as 'Lucifer; Light Bringer, Son of the Morning Star,' and named 'satan; adversary' (because I love English poets, I relayed this mostly with Milton's Paradise Lost). -'Father of Lies' is just another title for Luce. The 'His' and 'He' refer to God, not Luce. -Marlowe's Dr. Faustus ends with Faustus being dragged to hell. Think the shortened, American version of Burgess's A Clockwork Orange where Alex stays a baaaad boy. -Goethe's Faust ends with Faust returning to the grace of God. While he's partying with Mephistophilis, he basically ruins the life of this innocent, chaste lady. Her love convinces God to let him back into Heaven. -Milton's Paradise Lost; "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven out of Hell, a Hell of Heaven." Also famous is the, "Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven." This beautiful 17th century piece of work introduced the theme as Satan being a sly tempter with this tragic desire of free-will. Before, as seen with Dante's Inferno, Satan is depicted as being a belligerent monstrosity/ghastly remnants of angellic existence that's condemned to intellectual estrangement. -Milton extensively creates his landscape of Hell (beautifully!) as a kingdom that Satan rules (Pandemonium is its capital; he came up with that word, ohohoho). -Dante's Divine Commedia - Inferno; is just as complex as Milton's Hell from a medieval mindset. It's a perfect crystallization of the Middle Age's scholasticism and intellectual synthesis, because you see him layer it out from sins of incontinence to the last level of treachery/fraud. Also notable is that in Dante's Hell, Satan does not rule a kingdom, but he suffers as well (it's his fall that creates Hell, he's trapped in ice torso-up), because what kind of punishment would it be if God made Luce a king? -Catholic Church rescinded its acknowledgement of Limbo and unbaptized babies. Well.
part 1
-Marlowe's Dr. Faustus; "I think hell's a fable"; "Think so still, 'till experience changes your mind."
-Both Marlowe and Shakespeare are believed to have had homosexual encounters.
-Lucifer and his rebellious angels revolted against the army of Heaven led by Michael - hence the awkward confrontation between Michael and Lucifer before all heaven breaks loose, where the popular condemnation of Luce's pride occurs, where he's stripped of his title as 'Lucifer; Light Bringer, Son of the Morning Star,' and named 'satan; adversary' (because I love English poets, I relayed this mostly with Milton's Paradise Lost).
-'Father of Lies' is just another title for Luce. The 'His' and 'He' refer to God, not Luce.
-Marlowe's Dr. Faustus ends with Faustus being dragged to hell. Think the shortened, American version of Burgess's A Clockwork Orange where Alex stays a baaaad boy.
-Goethe's Faust ends with Faust returning to the grace of God. While he's partying with Mephistophilis, he basically ruins the life of this innocent, chaste lady. Her love convinces God to let him back into Heaven.
-Milton's Paradise Lost; "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven out of Hell, a Hell of Heaven." Also famous is the, "Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven." This beautiful 17th century piece of work introduced the theme as Satan being a sly tempter with this tragic desire of free-will. Before, as seen with Dante's Inferno, Satan is depicted as being a belligerent monstrosity/ghastly remnants of angellic existence that's condemned to intellectual estrangement.
-Milton extensively creates his landscape of Hell (beautifully!) as a kingdom that Satan rules (Pandemonium is its capital; he came up with that word, ohohoho).
-Dante's Divine Commedia - Inferno; is just as complex as Milton's Hell from a medieval mindset. It's a perfect crystallization of the Middle Age's scholasticism and intellectual synthesis, because you see him layer it out from sins of incontinence to the last level of treachery/fraud. Also notable is that in Dante's Hell, Satan does not rule a kingdom, but he suffers as well (it's his fall that creates Hell, he's trapped in ice torso-up), because what kind of punishment would it be if God made Luce a king?
-Catholic Church rescinded its acknowledgement of Limbo and unbaptized babies. Well.
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