이병은,  밀턴과 요한복음의 장님   page(s): 385-398  (13 pages)
  (Byung-Eun Lee, Milton and the Blind Man in John 9)


  Abstract

This study begins with a suggestion that Milton identifies himself with the blind man in John 9. It is an attempt to prove that Milton imagines himself to be similar to this man in the following respects: that he was especially chosen by God to become blind and therefore to serve some remarkable purpose; that he was stronger, rather than weaker, for his affliction since it enabled him to see with deeper insight the true light of God; and that his blindness was not the result of sin. Milton leans heavily on these points of comparison to defend himself against his political and literary enemies who challenged that his was deprived of his eyesight as punishment for writing sinful, hostile, and reactionary pamphlets. However, I hope to show further that this identification with the blind man in John 9 was not just a defense weapon with which Milton defied his accusers, but that Milton adopted it also as a sedative for his own conceit--to satisfy and console his ego with the idea that blindness could be good, purposeful, or even divinely ordained. 
  
 저자 키워드 
  
 Milton, the blind man in the Gospel of John, Paradise Lost, Defencio pro populo Anglicano, the inner light, 밀턴, 요한복음의 장님, "실낙원", "영국민을 위한 옹호", 내면의 빛