LITERATURA INGLESA I - AULA 09

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LITERATURA INGLESA I 
AULA 09 – JOHN MILTON AND HIS TIME 
 
 1a Questão 
 
 
John Milton was a very famous poet in English literature. Why did John Milton fight for more leniency in the 
church's position on divorce? Because 
 
 his marriage to Mary Powell did not last long. She abandoned him. 
 
he was in favor of the old rules established by the church. 
 
he wanted to get married to another man. 
 
he believed that a couple should be together only if they had young children. 
 
his parents wanted to be divorced and never got the legal right to do that. 
 
 2a Questão 
 
 
In Milton´s time, the Anglican Church, or Church of England, had split into the high Anglican, moderate Anglican, and Puritan 
or Presbyterian sects. Milton was a Presbyterian. 
► What did the Presbyterian call for at his time Milton lived? 
 
 
The Presbyterian just allowed boys to learn how to read and write. 
 This denomination called for the abolishment of bishops, an office that exists as part of the Catholic and Anglican 
churches. 
 
The Presbyterian called for their right for women to enroll at the universities. 
 
The Presbyterian called for the right for divorce and even for marriage annulment . 
 
The Presbyterian called for the right for women to vote. 
 
 3a Questão 
 
 
Milton is often spoken of as the last Renaissance man. At the same time he had his political views. Which 
were John Milton´s political ideals? 
 
 
Milton´s poetry and prose reflect deep personal convictions, a passion for peace. He was against 
political turbulence and defended the King´s rights. 
 
As he believed in God, he adopted a traditional political view about how to rule the world, following 
rules dictated by the Church. 
 He championed the absolute freedom of the individual, he believed that power corrupted human 
beings. He distrusted anyone who could claim power over anyone else, and believed that rulers 
should have to prove their right to lead other people. 
 
He exalted God´s forces and was definitely anyone who didn´t believe in God. 
 
He claimed we all needed to be ruled by a benign God in the manner of an earthly King. As God´s 
forces prove superior, the King, as a representative of God, ought to be obeyed by his subjects. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 4a Questão 
 
 
John Milton was nearly thirty and he had already established his reputation as a young man of letters, and 
with it, he gained entrance into the circles of the most learned men in Europe. 
How did he build such a firm poetic foundation? 
 
 
In his twenties, Milton wrote three masterful long poems, each of them influential and important in 
its own separate way: The Wanderer, which talked about a man in search for God, L´Allegro, in 
which Milton described the birth of Melancholy and Il Penseroso, in which he dealt with country 
pleasures. 
 
He studied at Harward University in the U.S.A. 
 Through his intense study of languages, philosophy, and politics, and fused it with his uncanny 
sense of tone and diction. 
 
Not only did he go to the best schools but was on the side of the King and the Church of England. 
 
As a result of his faith in God, his literary output was believed to have been granted by God. 
 
 5a Questão 
 
 
Concerning John Milton, one can say that ... 
 
 
Even though he enjoyed reading the classics in Greek and Latin and learning new theories in 
mathematics and music, he was never recognized as a great writer. 
 He wrote sonnets in Italian as a teenager. While a student at Cambridge, he was invited to address 
a speech written entirely in Latin. 
 
By the age of thirty, Milton had made himself into one of the most brilliant minds of England, 
however none of his novels turned into a best seller. 
 
He appreciated writing tragedies and his most famous one is Heaven Lost 
 
By the age of thirty, Milton was one of the most ambitious poets Germany had ever produced. 
 
 6a Questão 
 
 
John Milton´s view on marriage 
 
 expressed his belief that any sort of incompatibility: sexual, mental, or otherwise, is justified 
grounds for a divorce. 
 
alluded to biblical passages that identify man as the master of woman. 
 
is not mentioned in any books about him. 
 
was typical of the period of time he lived. 
 
saw women as inferior to men, believing that wives should be subservient to their husbands. 
 
 7a Questão 
 
 
Considered one of the great poets of the English language, Geoffrey Chaucer was born around _________, 
in ______________, although the exact date and place of his birth are not known. 
 Choose the correct answer. 
 
 
1436 / Birmingham 
 
1398 / Aberdeen 
 1343 / London 
 
1437 / Edinburgh 
 
1443 / Cambridge 
 
 
 
 8a Questão 
 
 
Having been brought up in court and wont treaties, Chaucer was sent to Flanders, Navarre, France, and 
Italy, he came into direct contact with the works of some famous writers, which are: 
 
 
Dante, Da Vinci and Shakespeare 
 
Da Vinci, Petrarch and Cardarelli 
 
Cardarelli, Petrarch and Gozzi 
 Dante, Boccaccio and Petrarch. 
 
Boccacio, Gozzi and Da Vinci 
 
 1a Questão 
 
 
The mid seventeenth-century was a time of great social and cultural turmoil. Milton was an activist in his 
middle years, fighting for human rights. How did Milton express his political ideas? 
 
 Knowing he was not a fighter, he demonstrated his activism by writing lengthy, rhetorical 
pamphlets that thoroughly and rigorously argue for his point of view - against the rule of England´s 
leaders, whom he believed were inept. 
 
By promoting meetings of philosophers at the Universities to fight for communism. 
 
As a product of Renaissance England, Milton expressed his political ideas by means of his paintings. 
 
As Milton was a fervorous Catholic, he fought for human rights by giving lectures at different 
Catholic churches throughout the country. 
 
By means of his musical creation since he was an accomplished musician. 
 
 2a Questão 
 
 
How does Milton begin his famous Paradise Lost? 
 
 
By presenting images of the fresh English countryside. 
 By stating that his subject will be Adam and Eve´s disobedience and fall from grace. 
 
By introducing Galileo´s theories as a means of preparing the reader for the development of the 
poem. 
 
By telling the readers they are going to be reading about the creation of Heaven and Hell. 
 
By presenting mythological characters in an idealized setting for the development of a romantic 
theme. 
 
 3a Questão 
 
 
Milton is often spoken of as the last Renaissance man. At the same time he had his political views. Which 
were John Milton´s political ideals? 
 
 
He claimed we all needed to be ruled by a benign God in the manner of an earthly King. As God´s 
forces prove superior, the King, as a representative of God, ought to be obeyed by his subjects. 
 
As he believed in God, he adopted a traditional political view about how to rule the world, following 
rules dictated by the Church. 
 
Milton´s poetry and prose reflect deep personal convictions, a passion for peace. He was against 
political turbulence and defended the King´s rights. 
 
He exalted God´s forces and was definitely anyone who didn´t believe in God. 
 He championed the absolute freedom of the individual, he believed that power corrupted human 
beings. He distrusted anyone who could claim power over anyone else, and believed that rulers 
should have to prove their right to lead other people. 
 
 
 
 4a Questão 
 
 
John Milton was nearly thirty and he had alreadyestablished his reputation as a young man of letters, and 
with it, he gained entrance into the circles of the most learned men in Europe. 
How did he build such a firm poetic foundation? 
 
 
In his twenties, Milton wrote three masterful long poems, each of them influential and important in 
its own separate way: The Wanderer, which talked about a man in search for God, L´Allegro, in 
which Milton described the birth of Melancholy and Il Penseroso, in which he dealt with country 
pleasures. 
 
He studied at Harward University in the U.S.A. 
 
As a result of his faith in God, his literary output was believed to have been granted by God. 
 Through his intense study of languages, philosophy, and politics, and fused it with his uncanny 
sense of tone and diction. 
 
Not only did he go to the best schools but was on the side of the King and the Church of England. 
 
 5a Questão 
 
 
John Milton´s view on marriage 
 
 
saw women as inferior to men, believing that wives should be subservient to their husbands. 
 expressed his belief that any sort of incompatibility: sexual, mental, or otherwise, is justified 
grounds for a divorce. 
 
is not mentioned in any books about him. 
 
was typical of the period of time he lived. 
 
alluded to biblical passages that identify man as the master of woman. 
 
 6a Questão 
 
 
Considered one of the great poets of the English language, Geoffrey Chaucer was born around _________, 
in ______________, although the exact date and place of his birth are not known. 
 Choose the correct answer. 
 
 
1437 / Edinburgh 
 1343 / London 
 
1443 / Cambridge 
 
1398 / Aberdeen 
 
1436 / Birmingham 
 
 7a Questão 
 
 
Having been brought up in court and wont treaties, Chaucer was sent to Flanders, Navarre, France, and 
Italy, he came into direct contact with the works of some famous writers, which are: 
 
 Dante, Boccaccio and Petrarch. 
 
Boccacio, Gozzi and Da Vinci 
 
Cardarelli, Petrarch and Gozzi 
 
Dante, Da Vinci and Shakespeare 
 
Da Vinci, Petrarch and Cardarelli 
 
 
 
 8a Questão 
 
 
In Milton´s time, the Anglican Church, or Church of England, had split into the high Anglican, moderate Anglican, and Puritan 
or Presbyterian sects. Milton was a Presbyterian. 
► What did the Presbyterian call for at his time Milton lived? 
 
 
The Presbyterian called for their right for women to enroll at the universities. 
 
The Presbyterian called for the right for divorce and even for marriage annulment . 
 
The Presbyterian called for the right for women to vote. 
 
The Presbyterian just allowed boys to learn how to read and write. 
 This denomination called for the abolishment of bishops, an office that exists as part of the Catholic and Anglican 
churches. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BASICALLY THESE ARE ALL THE QUESTIONS RELATED TO THIS CLASS.