FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
THE POETRY OF JOHN MILTON
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Greek Olympic Games
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A Roman Circus
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A Gladiator competition
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A and B
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Detailed explanation-1: -By the end of the poem, Samson, through expiation and regeneration, has regained a state of spiritual readiness in order to serve again as God’s champion. The destruction of the Philistines at the temple of Dagon results in more deaths than the sum of all previous casualties inflicted by Samson.
Detailed explanation-2: -Samson Agonistes, (Greek: “Samson the Athlete” or “Samson the Wrestler”) tragedy by John Milton, published in the same volume as his epic Paradise Regained in 1671. It is considered the greatest English drama based on the Greek model and is known as a closet tragedy (one more suited for reading than performance).
Detailed explanation-3: -Samson Agonistes is unusual among tragedies in that its hero is already fallen at the beginning of the play, rather than, like Oedipus in Oedipus Tyrannus (or Othello, Lear, and Coriolanus), beginning in prosperity and, with a change in fortune, plunged into adversity.
Detailed explanation-4: -The major themes in Samson Agonistes are Christian faith, violence, gender, and religion. Samson Agonistes shares the theme that imprisonment is not a place but instead a state of mind with Paradise Lost.