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Good question - well done for not disowning your intuitions about Satan. In a sense, this is the core question that faces readers of Paradise Lost today. Why would Milton, writing a Protestant tract about th...

The critic Robert Langbaum said that essence of dramatic monologues - poems like 'My Last Duchess,' where an invented character speaks the words, rather than an author or author-figure - was the 'tension bet...

Anselm developed an ontological argument, proving the existence of God through logic alone rather than evidence. He had two main arguments. The first rests on the predicate that God is 'a being than which no...

It is almost the same use of the subjunctive as the jussive but is used in the first person rather than the third. It is an independent use of the subjunctive (i.e. when the subjunctive is not used in a subo...

There are three main types of indirect statements that can be formed. First is the use of ὡς or ὁτι with a subjunctive or optative depending on the case of the verb in the main clause, retaining the tense of...