资产阶级革命时期英国文学.pptx

The Period of the English Bourgeois Revolution and the Restoration (1640-1688)John MiltonPamphleteer, a supporter of Oliver Cromwell. Milton argued for religious freedom and stood against the authority of the bishops.Poet: 24 sonnetsWorks include: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes.In literature, Milton occupied a transitional position. He came immediately after the Elizabethan period and absorbed the humanist culture; at the same time, he was a faithful puritan in his belief. In his poetry, he blends the tradition of the Renaissance with the spirit of revolutionary struggle and the ideas of puritanism.It presents the author’s political views in allegorical religious form. It is built on the stories and myths in the Bible through which western people have sought to understand the meaning of their experience of life.The work contains Milton’s ambition, his love of freedom and his deep-seated Puritanism.Paradise lostThe story is about Satan’s revolt against God and man’s loss of paradise. The poem begins with a detailed description of Satan and his followers re-assembling in hell and scheming for revenge against God. Though the purpose of the poem is to justify the ways of God to men, as Satan tries to justify himself by posing as a rebel against tyranny, Milton apparently unconsciously makes the devil serve as his mouthpiece. Throughout the epic Milton shows a Puritan’s revolt against the established doctrines of the Catholics and the Anglican Church by interpreting the story in the Bible freely for himself.John BunyanPuritan writer who participated in the struggle against the corrupt, dissolute feudal-aristocratic regimes of Charles II and James II.Pilgrim’s progressThe work has often been read and appreciated as a religious allegory, though many critics have noted the many realistic pictures of the personified figures and allegorical places in the book, pointing out that the people Christian meets on the way are such as might be seen in Bunyan’s day