Mary as an Initiator of the Son’s Public Ministry in Milton’s Paradise Regained
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Although perseverance, unwavering resistance to Satan’s temptations, and moral rectitude are the Son’s virtues in Milton’s Paradise Lost, these are most valuable when they are used for a great goal of saving mankind. Though little portion is given to his mother in the poem, the Virgin Mary is an influential woman who recognizes he is destined to redeem human beings and urges him to aim high and initiates his religious and spiritual growth into a public man. Different from its primary source, the synoptic narratives, where Mary keeps silent about her son’s birth, Milton’s Mary reveals the Son the parentage and tells him in detail his nativity. Milton seems to change because he wants to focus on the Son’s public missions and, more significantly, Mary’s encouragement of his public ministry. Mary taught him how to read and how to interpret the Word. With his mother’s education and the crucial event of his Baptism, the Son is fully aware of his parentage and vocation. At the Baptism, the Son inaugurates his public performance, fully aware of his parentage and Messiahship. Mary is a strong-willed and sagacious woman. Despite the fact that she was told her Son’s future--full of sufferings, humiliations, hostility from others, and worst of all, crucifixion, she resolutely accepts all of these because she believes in his accomplishing the mission of saving humanity. Despite a little amount that is devoted to Mary, Mary is an influential figure prompting the Son’s public missions through which man will be redeemed.
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Although perseverance, unwavering resistance to Satan’s temptations, and moral rectitude are the Son’s virtues in Milton’s Paradise Lost, these are most valuable when they are used for a great goal of saving mankind. Though little portion is given to his mother in the poem, the Virgin Mary is an influential woman who recognizes he is destined to redeem human beings and urges him to aim high and initiates his religious and spiritual growth into a public man. Different from its primary source, the synoptic narratives, where Mary keeps silent about her son’s birth, Milton’s Mary reveals the Son the parentage and tells him in detail his nativity. Milton seems to change because he wants to focus on the Son’s public missions and, more significantly, Mary’s encouragement of his public ministry. Mary taught him how to read and how to interpret the Word. With his mother’s education and the crucial event of his Baptism, the Son is fully aware of his parentage and vocation. At the Baptism, the Son inaugurates his public performance, fully aware of his parentage and Messiahship. Mary is a strong-willed and sagacious woman. Despite the fact that she was told her Son’s future--full of sufferings, humiliations, hostility from others, and worst of all, crucifixion, she resolutely accepts all of these because she believes in his accomplishing the mission of saving humanity. Despite a little amount that is devoted to Mary, Mary is an influential figure prompting the Son’s public missions through which man will be redeemed.
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