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The War Won with Words, and the Country Rebuilt by Them University of Hawai‘i at Hilo · Hawai‘i Community College HOHONU 2013 Vol. 11 swiftly became an indispensable component of ensuring The War Won with Words, and a Royalist position of authority: “During the frst half of the Country Rebuilt by Them the sixteenth century, the English gentry came to realize Corey Patton, [email protected] that its continued access to the controls of power would English 304, UH Hilo depend less on birth and military prowess and more on literacy and learning” (Levy 11). Cavalier poets, such as The downfall of many leaders throughout the Richard Lovelace and Robert Herrick, contributed their annals of history is best attributed to their failure to artful talents to garnering support for King Charles I, understand the paramount importance of confronting flling volume upon volume with verses dedicated to the foes with the use of a pen, rather than a sword. European royal family in the hopes that their words would inspire politics underwent a monumental transformation in loyalty to the sovereignty of the crown. the period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century However, by the same token, the Royalists came due to the sudden, widespread development of literary to fear the revolutionary potential of literature as texts comprehension amongst the middle and lower classes began to surface that called for a purging of government in European society. As a result, the English Civil War corruption under the reign of King Charles I. A plethora became one of the frst major conficts in British history of Puritan authors, all frm supporters of Parliamentarian to rely heavily upon the infuence of written media to ideals, used their writing as a means of releasing determine the outcome of the war. Wary adversaries from subversive commentary on the political turmoil that both Parliamentarian and Royalist allegiances adopted wrought England during the seventeenth century (and the use of literature to bring awareness to controversial in particular, the religious implications of said political issues, to draw the support of sympathetic audiences discord). In retaliation to the publishing of these offensive and to sling propaganda against opposing forces. Upon texts, King Charles I imprisoned several Parliamentarian close inspection of the tangible impacts literature had authors for their transgressions against his kingship. Men on British citizens prior to, during and immediately like John Bastwick and William Prynne, who were at the after the civil war, it is undeniable that the triumph of forefront of the Puritan authors’ rebellion, “had their ears the Parliamentarians was inextricably linked to their use cut off as punishment, and to serve as a warning against of literary works as tools for dismantling King Charles future impudence” (Purkiss 201). Ironically, the actions I and his Royalist constituents, and that restructuring of King Charles I only served to further his own dissention British society in the war’s aftermath was also facilitated in public opinion, as many outspoken citizens erupted by literary contributions such as Paradise Lost by John into a furious tirade against the king’s blatant tyranny, Milton. thereby instigating the frst major battles of the English With the advent of Johannes Gutenberg’s printing Civil War in the 1640s. press in the mid-ffteenth century, the ability to read and As the English Civil War continued on for the next write, a skillset which had previously been exclusive to decade, Parliamentarian leaders came to appreciate the the privileged classes, became readily accessible to a beneft of supplementing their strides on the battlefeld broader demographic in Europe. Printed text could be with a steady fow of new publications to generate affordably reproduced, which accomplished three things: positive public regard for their position in the war. For it reduced the cost of books, increased the number of the frst two years of the contention for supremacy, things books in circulation, and made it easier for less affuent remained relatively stagnant as both factions faced off authors to publish their creations on a reasonable exclusively in physical combat. As this war of attrition budget. Less than half a century after the introduction of began to drag on, Oliver Cromwell, though he would later the printing press “male literacy in England slowly and become a hugely controversial fgure during the English steadily increased from ten percent in 1500 to forty-fve Commonwealth, proved himself to be an invaluable percent in 1714 and to sixty percent in 1750. Female asset for rallying support behind Parliamentarian efforts, literacy in England increased from a mere one percent in ingeniously enlisting several authors to publish material 1500 to twenty-fve percent in 1714 and to forty percent in Scotland and Ireland in an attempt to position himself in 1750” (Brewer 155). This unprecedented change in for a pincer-attack on King Charles I: “from 1654 to social dynamics meant that a freer exchange of ideas 1655 the tide began to drastically shift in favor of could now take place, and more careful analysis could Parliamentarian support in the British Isles. In the span of be given to previously overlooked idiosyncrasies in law, less than a year, Parliament expanded its favorability to religion, and human interaction. nearly 80 percent of Britain’s population” (Purkiss 23). In Meanwhile, several politicians embraced the subsequent years, it became increasingly evident that a spread of literacy once they realized that they now Royalist defeat had been secured by Cromwell’s effective had a vehicle for communicating with (and in many leadership and refocusing of political tactics. instances, effectively infltrating and manipulating) the Unfortunately, the brilliance exhibited by Cromwell rapidly emerging European middle class, as well as during Parliament’s turnabout years of the English Civil some members of lower class society. Supporters of King War has been eclipsed by his controversial actions as Charles I were certainly privy to the fact that literature Lord Protector of the short-lived British Commonwealth. 58 University of Hawai‘i at Hilo · Hawai‘i Community College HOHONU 2013 Vol. 11 Thankfully, there remains yet another element to a Christlike martyr-king,” an inaccurate depicture that literature’s importance as a cultural device: for post- had little logical or historical substantiation considering war/trauma recovery, literature provides ever-vigilant the well-documented tyranny of King Charles I, and one scrutiny as the victors of war begin their attempt to that spat in the face of Milton’s own ideological standing restructure society. In many ways, John Milton’s Paradise (Bennett 442). Lost represents a foray into the dismay experienced Taking both possibilities into consideration while by Parliamentarians who, while triumphant over the reading Milton’s Paradise Lost, both sides hold some Royalists, were forced to witness Cromwell’s fall from level of feasibility. In fact, many clues suggest that grace as his religious fanaticism and extremist views Milton’s rhetoric aims at jointly attacking both Charles turned him against the Scottish and Irish supporters he and Cromwell, venting his frustrations with persistent had adopted during the civil war. Royalists while simultaneously lamenting Cromwell’s In recent years, a number of scholars have begun a betrayal of his own faction. In Paradise Lost, part of discussion for how, in Paradise Lost, John Milton creates Satan’s soliloquy in Book I appears to directly satirize strong parallels between Satan’s defance of God and the Royalist party and the abuses of King Charles I: Cromwell’s dangerous and irrational ambition. Gabriel “Be it so, since he / Who now is sov’reign can dispose Roberts, a graduate of the University of Cambridge and bid / What shall be right” (Milton I.245-247). In and recipient of several academic distinctions for his this instance, Milton is undoubtedly concerned with dissertations on the subject of British Literature, discusses exposing and documenting the crimes of Charles, using Milton’s epic poem in an article entitled “Milton’s Political Satan’s powerless state against God as a representation Context.” Roberts assesses the political landscape during of Parliament’s powerlessness against Charles during the Milton’s time and how Milton challenged the political Eleven Years’ Tyranny. However, Milton’s later depiction fallacies committed by Cromwell. He suggests that, of Satan during the manipulation of Eve echoes Milton’s “Satan’s speeches provide the strongest example of a resentment towards Cromwell: distinctively political voice appearing in the poem... Queen of this universe, do not believe he can be seen to represent something of Milton and Those rigid threats of death: ye shall not die Cromwell in their revolutionary struggles against the How should ye? By the fruit? It gives you life king” (Roberts 3). Though Satan, like Cromwell, starts out To knowledge. By the Threat’ner? Look on me the story as a sympathetic character, perhaps even one Me who have touched and tasted, yet both live. with admirable qualities, Milton “weave[s] subtle faws (Milton IX.684-688) into Satan’s arguments” (Roberts 2). Those discernible faws and logical inconsistencies represent Milton’s own Though Eve knows Satan’s suggested path is treacherous disillusionment with Cromwell’s leadership. Roberts and in clear defance of God, she allows herself to be continues by saying that “Milton strikes a fascinating beguiled by his unfounded, heretic logic. Cromwell, balance between making Satan convincing and making likewise, was responsible for beguiling an entire nation sure that his arguments are misleading” (Roberts 3). After and using his newfound affuence as a victor of the evaluating Paradise Lost in light of Roberts’s dissection of English Civil War to commit heinous persecutions Milton’s characterizations, it is apparent that the character against Protestants under the guise of political and of Eve is set up to be deceived by Satan in much the same religious reform.
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