ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

JOHN MILTON

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
After getting married, getting divorced, reconciling, 3 children were born to him, the fourth died of his wife and the youngest of his 3 children too, Milton became minister of ____
A
Foreign languages
B
Church
C
I do not know
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -By 1652, Milton had become totally blind; the cause of his blindness is debated but bilateral retinal detachment or glaucoma are most likely. His blindness forced him to dictate his verse and prose to amanuenses who copied them out for him; one of these was Andrew Marvell.

Detailed explanation-2: -Milton argued that it was the head of the household – the married man – who held the power to adjudicate divorce himself as a ‘domestick prerogative’, leaving the law only to ‘take care that the conditions of divorce be not injurious. ‘ The man, then, was judge in his own case.

Detailed explanation-3: -Eventually, Milton managed to effect some reconciliation and the two settled down, however warily, producing four children: his daughters, Anne, Mary and Deborah, as well as John, his only son, who died in infancy. In 1652, three days after Deborah’s birth, Mary Powell Milton also died.

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