Technique of anticipation and recapitulation in “Paradise Lost”: Book - 1 (2019)
Dr. Manjula Batra
JCR. 2019: 290-297
Abstract
The Book 1 of Milton’s Paradise Lost serves as a kind of prelude to the whole epic. It moves back and forth in time. And precisely because Milton, in writing it, followed this technique of anticipation and recapitulation or the forward-backward-forward movement, one easily grasps the rest of Paradise Lost, by reading Book 1. By using this technique of anticipation and recapitulation, Milton organises action (structure), depicts character, presents the locale and handles the texture. This technique of flashback (past) and prophecy (future) makes it easy for the reader to extract meaning from parallel situations.
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