John Milton wrote four divorce tracts in the early 1640', claiming a couple who found themselves incompatible in nature after marriage can be divorced. The author also described an ideal marriage couple in his Paradise Lost twenty years later, inspiring us to recognize a couple knotted in true love can make a great sacrifice to each other.
17. 「愛はすべてを征服する」
Amor vincit omnia
Of smal coral aboute hir arm she bar
A peire of bedes, gauded al with grene;
And ther-on heng a broche of gold ful shene,
On which ther was first write a crowned A,
And after, Amor vincit omnia.
「院長は腕に小珊瑚の粒でできた飾りをつけていた。それは艶出しした緑色で、
飾りからきらきらと輝く黄金のブローチが下がっていた。ブローチには彼女はこ
の念珠に美しい黄金の飾りをつけでいた。この飾りにはAが冠の上に大きく書か
れ、その後には『愛はすべてを征服する』とあった。」『カンタベリー物語』(序)
30. 愛のソネット
Methought I saw my late espoused saint
Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave,
Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave,
Rescu'd from death by force, though pale and faint.
Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint
Purification in the old Law did save,
And such as yet once more I trust to have
Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint,
Came vested all in white, pure as her mind;
Her face was veil'd, yet to my fancied sight
Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shin'd
So clear as in no face with more delight.
But Oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd,
I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.
The motto, and the portrait of which it is the
conclusion, appreciate both the secular impulses and the sacred
redemptive will, but there is no doubt which love it is that is
crowned with ultimate power
Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix (1798 - 1863) (French) (Details of artist on Google Art Project)TitleHercules and AlcestisObject typePaintingDate1862
1. Roger Schofield, 'Did the mothers really die? Three centuries of maternal mortalityin "The World We Have Lost", in Lloyd Bonfield, Richard M. Smith and KeithWrightson (eds), The World We Have Gained: Histories of Population and SocialStructure, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1986.
2. many women also died in childbirth. In London during the 17th century, the maternal mortality rate is estimated to have been 15 per 1,000 births (Towler & Bramall, 1986)
問3:下線部(2)は「レビ記」12章への言及です。「レビ記」というのはどのようなことが記載された書物でしょうか。
問4:下線部(3)では、目覚めて朝であるにもかかわらず夜になったと逆転が起こっています。これは、詩人のどのような状況を述べているのか、推測してください。