ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

THE POETRY OF JOHN MILTON

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Despite Samson’s defeat and shame, Samson predicts that God will “arise and his great name assert” by making Dagon receive “Such a discomfit, as shall quite despoil him / Of all these boasted Trophies won on me / And with confusion blank his Worshippers” (467–71). This prediction is interesting because
A
the prediction is never fulfilled.
B
the prophet Enoch had made the same prediction centuries earlier.
C
Samson doesn’t know he himself will fulfill the prediction.
D
the prediction is finally fulfilled much later when Jesus defeats Dagon.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Sams. With day-spring born; here leave me to respire. Times past, what once I was, and what am now.

Detailed explanation-2: -Acts of violence are an important theme within Samson Agonistes as the play attempts to deal with revenge and the destruction of God’s enemies. Michael Lieb posits that “the drama is a work of violence to its very core. It extols violence. Indeed, it exults in violence".

Detailed explanation-3: -The biblical account states that Samson was a Nazirite, and that he was given immense strength to aid him against his enemies and allow him to perform superhuman feats, including slaying a lion with his bare hands and massacring an entire army of Philistines using only the jawbone of a donkey.

Detailed explanation-4: -Samson was unable to save himself from the claws of death and was also buried with them, but remained alive among the hearts of his people. In this way, he set an example of great sacrifice by giving up his life but eliminating his rivals.

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