Trouble in Paradise

To what does Adam attribute Eve's dream as she relates it in Book V? How does his interpretation of her dream  compare to Pertelote's interpretation of Chaunticleer's?

Also, while we have seen Satan defiant and doubting and persuasive and vengeful, after he sees Adam and Eve in love at the end of their day, he feels another emotion--what is it?   (iv, 505ff)  Does that change his purpose?

I must comment on the quality of the discussions I see here each week.  You have tremendous insight and all express it very well!  Reading this makes me not so worried about the silence in the classroom!!

Donne, Herrick, and Marvell

How would you compare and contrast the approach taken to love poetry by these three poets?  What seems to be important to each?  Make specific references to the poetry in your response, please.

Sidney and Love Poetry

In Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale," you will recall, Palamon and Arcite have a heated disagreement about Emily's nature--is she human or divine?  Do you think Astrophil has basically this same conflict in his adoration of Stella?  Can she be both to him?  How does he express and then reconcile his conceptions of her?  Use some specific examples from the sonnets as you explore this idea.

Utopian Sameness

Raphael Hythloday describes the 54 Utopian cites as "all spacious and magnificent, identical in language, customs, institutions, and laws.  So far as the location permits, all are built on the same plan, and have the same appearance" (More 547).

While that might produce the same kind of reassurance that knowing every McDonald's in every city and town in this country serve the same hamburger and fries, what might be the limitations to that kind of order?  What attitude about life does that imply?