“고통에서 지복으로”: 밀턴의 초기 엘리지와 죽음
“Through Pangs to Felicity”: Milton's Early Elegies and Death
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This essay attempts to find the true meaning of Lady Jane, the heroine in “An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester.” Milton struggles to receive a clue to a solution through meditation on death whenever he has been faced with some difficulties like the right choice for the future. He is convinced that death can provide him with opportunities through which he is armed with the essence of life. In his early elegies, Milton portrays youthful figures performing true heroism based on self-sacrifice and martyrdom. Lady Jane dies in the process of her giving birth to the second son. Her tragedy becomes the subject of contemporary writers including Milton, posing the question of how it should be understood and what can be its reward. Lady Jane, a model of moral and spiritual dignity, presents her own inward virtues and aristocratic noble characters which are not earthy but transcendental. These moral integrities are actualized typically in the delivery of a second son, because she is willing to be “a living tomb”(“Epitaph”; 34) of the stillborn son and suffers a premature death during a fatal maternal surgery. Even though she can escape the danger of imminent death only if she wants, she decides to take the risk of her pregnancy and difficult birth. Jane's painful and decisive choice and action embody the mother's heroism of patient suffering and self-sacrifice, which leads finally to her violent death. Her extreme tragedy makes mourners examine how fate, nature or divine providence works in this world respectively. However, her sacrifice and death are rewarded with the title of saint and queen, who takes rest in the divine bosom of majesty and light. She takes the glory of metamorphosis as her earthly state of wife, daughter or heir turns into the most important transcendental figure who sits at the highest throne in heaven. Her death is not a just death but an entrance into eternal life by overcoming death through death. Her heroism achieved by birth pangs and maternal death is “the better fortitude / Of patience and heroic martyrdom”(Paradise Lost 9; 31-32) and receives the elevation of status, “No Marchioness, but now a Queen” (“Epitaph”; 74), surviving the earthly suffering and pains. Jane plays the great part of a patron saint in heaven of guiding suffering people to peace and rest. Here lies the true significance of Lady Jane's death.
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This essay attempts to find the true meaning of Lady Jane, the heroine in “An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester.” Milton struggles to receive a clue to a solution through meditation on death whenever he has been faced with some difficulties like the right choice for the future. He is convinced that death can provide him with opportunities through which he is armed with the essence of life. In his early elegies, Milton portrays youthful figures performing true heroism based on self-sacrifice and martyrdom. Lady Jane dies in the process of her giving birth to the second son. Her tragedy becomes the subject of contemporary writers including Milton, posing the question of how it should be understood and what can be its reward. Lady Jane, a model of moral and spiritual dignity, presents her own inward virtues and aristocratic noble characters which are not earthy but transcendental. These moral integrities are actualized typically in the delivery of a second son, because she is willing to be “a living tomb”(“Epitaph”; 34) of the stillborn son and suffers a premature death during a fatal maternal surgery. Even though she can escape the danger of imminent death only if she wants, she decides to take the risk of her pregnancy and difficult birth. Jane's painful and decisive choice and action embody the mother's heroism of patient suffering and self-sacrifice, which leads finally to her violent death. Her extreme tragedy makes mourners examine how fate, nature or divine providence works in this world respectively. However, her sacrifice and death are rewarded with the title of saint and queen, who takes rest in the divine bosom of majesty and light. She takes the glory of metamorphosis as her earthly state of wife, daughter or heir turns into the most important transcendental figure who sits at the highest throne in heaven. Her death is not a just death but an entrance into eternal life by overcoming death through death. Her heroism achieved by birth pangs and maternal death is “the better fortitude / Of patience and heroic martyrdom”(Paradise Lost 9; 31-32) and receives the elevation of status, “No Marchioness, but now a Queen” (“Epitaph”; 74), surviving the earthly suffering and pains. Jane plays the great part of a patron saint in heaven of guiding suffering people to peace and rest. Here lies the true significance of Lady Jane's death.
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