'열정'의 수사학: 밀턴의 <실낙원>

Abstract

Milton's concept of passion regarding the divine voice builds up a traditional view of religious ethics: the formulation of inferior passion as enemy, submission to law of reason, free will to obedience, and self-sufficiency controlling passion. In Paradise Lost, Milton reflects the notion of Aristotlean and Aquinas's ethics developing to C. S. Lewis's notion of hierarchy principles; and then he expands it by accepting the Platonic interpretation of self-knowledge in a way the subjective experience toward the infinite of God is the truth. Milton's Christian Incarnation is achieved largely through the function of the temporal passion as self-experience in regard to the eternity of Heaven.Milton contrasts dynamics which work on the prior nature of passion in human being: how the body, the female, and inferior passion interact with reason or imagination; how they really themselves with virtue as well as vice; and how they prepare the way for action, all in accord with a divine scheme. Throughout the drama, Milton presents the passion as a central matter of rhetoric, a way of persuading the story of Adam and Eve in humanity towards the perfect stage of heavenly love. Milton demonstrates that Adam ought to know how he learns what. The former is a metonymy, a reality of the narrative; the latter is a metaphor, a human-centered warm message of passion.(Sangji University)