Discourse on the Dangers of Rampant Individualism in Paradise Lost
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Beginning with Jacob Burckhardt’s landmark study, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, which puts forth the idea of the independent and subjective individual as the greatest of Renaissance discovery, there is an ongoing discussion on the subject of individuality in regard to the Renaissance period. Some critics such as William Kerrigan and Gordon Braden supports Burckhardt’s argument that the Renaissance period gave birth to the idea of individuality that radically advanced “the mode of conceiving and representing both the individual and human nature in general.” Others, particularly, the New Historists such as Stephen Greenblatt, argue that Burckhardt’s assertion regarding the emergence of men during the Renaissance “as free individuals must be sharply qualified” and that the very notion of individualism is a cultural construct. Regardless of the merits of the two opposing arguments, nevertheless, it is the argument of this article that John Milton also partakes in this discourse in Paradise Lost, one in which, perhaps surprisingly, he chooses to underscore the inherent dangers of individualistic tendencies by correlating them to Satan and his evil machinations.
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Beginning with Jacob Burckhardt’s landmark study, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, which puts forth the idea of the independent and subjective individual as the greatest of Renaissance discovery, there is an ongoing discussion on the subject of individuality in regard to the Renaissance period. Some critics such as William Kerrigan and Gordon Braden supports Burckhardt’s argument that the Renaissance period gave birth to the idea of individuality that radically advanced “the mode of conceiving and representing both the individual and human nature in general.” Others, particularly, the New Historists such as Stephen Greenblatt, argue that Burckhardt’s assertion regarding the emergence of men during the Renaissance “as free individuals must be sharply qualified” and that the very notion of individualism is a cultural construct. Regardless of the merits of the two opposing arguments, nevertheless, it is the argument of this article that John Milton also partakes in this discourse in Paradise Lost, one in which, perhaps surprisingly, he chooses to underscore the inherent dangers of individualistic tendencies by correlating them to Satan and his evil machinations.
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