ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Manoa tells the Chorus that they should all go find Samson’s body and clean off the blood of his enemies. He, Manoa, will gather up all his friends and family to organize a proper funeral procession for Samson to take him back to his home.

Detailed explanation-2: -Harapha, all proud and strong and unimpaired, is kind of like what Samson used to be. He represents Samson’s past. In fact, we could go even a bit further and think about Harapha as a version of Samson and their encounter as a confrontation between Samson and himself.

Detailed explanation-3: -Samson, the warrior hero of the ancient Israelites, is the protagonist of the longest poem in this volume, Samson Agonistes. He is a defeated and remorseful man at the start of the poem, even though he has recovered the stupendous physical strength given to him by God, which he had lost after Dalila cut his hair.

Detailed explanation-4: -He was captured, blinded, and enslaved by the Philistines, but in the end God granted Samson his revenge; through the return of his old strength, he demolished the great Philistine temple of the god Dagon, at Gaza, destroying his captors and himself (Judges 16:4–30).

Detailed explanation-5: -For both Oedipus and Samson, then, their blindness is a physical reflection of an internal failure: they both failed to see-metaphorically-the truth about someone or something in their life.