FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
THE POETRY OF JOHN MILTON
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the Chorus has just stated it hates this kind of lavish, external beauty.
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Samson hates this kind of lavish, external beauty.
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Dalila usually dresses in a more understated Puritan manner.
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Samson is blind.
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Detailed explanation-1: -For Milton’s use in Samson Agonistes, the chorus is useful in girding Samson’s faith in God and sparking him to action.
Detailed explanation-2: -Dalila episode in John Milton’s “Samson Agonistes” is very important to this tragedy for more than one reason. First of all, she represents the “tempter” in this drama. Secondly, she could be compared to many characters such as Eve, Satan, and other great characters in other tragedies.
Detailed explanation-3: -To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more then half.
Detailed explanation-4: -Critical Analysis The poetic play, Samson Agonistes is however religious in tone. Its hero recovers and does God’s work The moral law is firm and clear. There is no disproportion between sin and punishment, no temporary dislocation of the universal order, and no sense of waste.