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

Paradise upset and The Blazing universe of discourse experience of Knowledge that is Best Left UnknownJohn Milton set out to compile Paradise Lost in order to justify the ways of god to men (1.26). To achieve this grand goal, Milton relies on his lectors might to discover a degree of ad hominem revelation within the text. many scholars have noted Miltons reliance on personal breakthrough 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 ratifier that is able to produce 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 message to instruct her reader in a way that closely resembles that use by Milton in Para dise Lost. In addition, Cavendish makes use of one of its primary(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 alternatively 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 right Christian iconseem to further undermine any whim 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.Fish, Stanely E ugene. 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.