芩的天地

week17

 Samon (John Milton’s Samon Agonistes)

          Samson Agonistes is a tragic closet drama by John Milton. It appeared with the publication of Milton's Paradise Regain'd in 1671, as the title page of that volume states: "Paradise Regained / A Poem / In IV Books / To Which Is Added / Samson Agonistes". It is generally thought that Samson Agonistes was begun around the same time as Paradise Regained but was completed after the larger work, possibly very close to the date of publishing, but there is no agreement on this.

    Delilah→ Fatal woman (fate)

             Delilah is a character in the Hebrew Bible Book of Judges, where she is the "woman in the valley of Sorek" whom Samson loved, and who was his downfall. Her figure, one of several dangerous temptresses in the Hebrew Bible, has become emblematic: "Samson loved Delilah, she betrayed him, and, what is worse, she did it for money," Madlyn Kahr begins her study of the Delilah motif in European painting.

Fate←→destiny (destination)

Samoon's  power: seven lock of hairs

          愛情的無力感: powerlessness

   A Lost Paradise 失樂園

Main character: Satan (Lucifer, Prince of Darkness)

         A Lost Paradise (失楽園 Shitsurakuen) is 1997 novel by Japanese author Junichi Watanabe. It tells the story of a 54-year-old married former magazine editor, his affair with a 37-year-old married typesetter and their double-suicide. The couple, Kūki and Rinko, are modeled after the famous case of Sada Abe.

 Divine Comedy--Dante Alighieri

  Inferno

 Purgatorio

Paradiso

Prefix: para-

--definition: 平行並立

e.g. parallel, parasol, parachute (the golden parachutte), parasite

 Purgatorio: seven deadly sins → Parsen’s tale

   Prefix: -ly (adj)

lovely

friendly

elderly,

cowardly,

 deadly

 The Canterbury Tales-Dan Brown

             The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer. In 1386 Chaucer became Controller of Customs and Justice of Peace and then three years later in 1389 Clerk of the King's work. It was during these years that Chaucer began working on his most famous text, The Canterbury Tales. The tales (mostly written in verse, although some are in prose) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from London to Canterbury in order to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return.

  摩西: Burning Bush-whirlwind

              The burning bush is an object described by the Book of Exodus[3:1–4:17] as being located on Mount Horeb. According to the narrative, the bush was on fire, but was not consumed by the flames, hence the name.[1] In the biblical narrative, the burning bush is the location at which Moses was appointed by Yahweh (God) to lead the Israelites out of Egypt and into Canaan.