Paradise Lost and The Blazing World: Knowledge of Knowledge that is Bes

Paradise at sea and The Blazing military man companionship of Knowledge that is Best Left UnknownJohn Milton set out to pen Paradise Lost in order to justify the ways of theology to men (1.26). To achieve this grand goal, Milton relies on his ratifiers talent to discover a degree of personalised revelation within the text. umteen scholars have noted Miltons reliance on personal stripping throughout Paradise Lost Stanley Eugene Fish points out that discovery operates in Paradise Lost in a way that is analogous to that of the mosaic Law because it invokes a level of interaction with the contributor that is able to strike us to the righteousness of Christ (526-7). This idea of discovery differs from genre because the readers personal experiences within the text frame the guiding principles for the readers self-education. In The Blazing Word, Margaret Cavendish utilizes discovery as a nub to instruct her reader in a way that closely resembles that utilize by Milton in Paradise Lost. In addition, Cavendish makes use of one of its chief(prenominal) themes Be lowly wise (Milton 8.173). Although the idea that Cavendish and Milton would both emphasize personal discovery in their texts may not be all that earth-shattering, it seems or else implausible that Margaret Cavendish, a woman who was a stanch opponent to puritan values, (Ankers 306) as well as an devoted royalist, could have possessed a conception of the nature of knowledge that was virtually indistinguishable from the one held by John Milton, a devout Puritan and Cromwell supporter. Furthermore, our current conceptions of these two writersMargaret Cavendish as a pioneering feminist writer and John Milton as a unprogressive Christian iconseem to further undermine any capriciousness that these two autho... ...ary Criticism 9.1,2 (2000) 301-15.Cavendish, Margaret. The Blazing World. The Blazing World & Other Writings.Ed. Kate Lilley. capital of the United Kingdom Penguin, 1994. 117-202.F ish, Stanely Eugene. Discovery as Form in Paradise Lost. Paradise Lost An Authoritative text edition Backgrounds and SourcesCriticism. 2nd ed. Ed. Scott Elledge. New York Nortan, 1993. 526-36.Lilley, Kate. Introduction. The Blazing World & Other Writings.Ed. Kate Lilley. London Penguin, 1994. ix-xxxii. Milton, John. Paradise Lost. Paradise Lost An Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Sources Criticism. 2nd ed. Ed. Scott Elledge. New York Nortan, 1993. 1-304.Wood, Caroline Tanya. The Fall and Rise of Absoluteism Margaret Cavendishs exercise of Masque Conventions in The Claspe Fantasmes Masqueand The Blazing World. In-Between Essays & Studies in literary Criticism 9.1,2 (2000) 287-99.