Libertate, destin şi autoritate în Paradisul pierdut de J. Milton şi Viaţa de vis de P. Calderon: o perspectivă comparatistă [Articol]

Abstract

The article aims to comparatively analyse the way in which the poem "Paradise Lost" by J. Milton and the drama "Life is a Dream" by P. Calderon construct and problematize the relationships between destiny, freedom, power and authority, studying both thematic convergences and differences in vision that reflect each author ideological specificity. While Milton develops a paradigm of tense freedom, in conflict with authority and subject to self-destruction risk, suggesting that without certain limits and morality, liberation from a compromised authority does not guarantee authentic freedom, Calderon proposes a model of interiorized freedom, capable of reconciling individual with order and of transforming power into an ethical exercise, when acquired freedom supposes self-control, responsibility and self-transcendence, reflection and moral assumption. The present research will demonstrate that these two works not only thematize the early modernity major issues, but also offer distinct answers to essential questions concerning human freedom limits and possibilities in relation to destiny and authority.