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International Journal of English Literature and Culture Vol. 5(2), pp. 30-35, March, 2017 ISSN: 2360-7831 DOI: 10.14662/IJELC2017.011
Review paper
The Role of Achitophel in Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel: A Representation of the Unscrupulous and Ambitious Politicians with Extraordinary Intellect
*1Md. Nawsher Oan, 2A.S.M. Mahbubur Rahman, 3Dipak Kumar Sarkar and 4Md. Faisal Haque
*1Associate Profesor, Dept. of Language, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, Dinajpur Dinajpur-5200, Banladesh. 2Lecturer, Dept. of Language, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, Dinajpur Dinajpur-5200, Banladesh. 3Assistant Profesor, Dept. of Language, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, Dinajpur-5200, Banladesh. 4Assistant Profesor, Dept. of Language, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, Dinajpur Dinajpur-5200, Banladesh.
Accepted 23 March 2017
It was indisputable to infer the role of Achitophel in Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel as the portray of a certain political practice that emerged from a sort of political thought of the Restoration England. This poem was written in a particular political situation which striked the people of the age. In this poem the relationship between father and son attracted our attention. Achitophel here acted as a catalyst to instigate the rebellion of son against the father. Actually this paper was going to explore the role of Achitophel, the Earl of Shaftesbury, as a cunning politician who represents the politicians of the age of Restoration. A. B. Chambers opines, “the story of Absalom and Achitophel found seventeenth-century political application with sufficient frequency to establish a tradition in which Achitophel was a type for the rebellious and wily politician” (592). His cunningness and unscrupulousness regarding the anti-royal movement against King David on the one hand evoked the rebelliousness of some other rebels towards the King and on the other hand prepared Absalom’s state of mind to revolt against his God like father. However, in this poem we observed a conflict between Whig and Tory, Catholicism and Protestantism, son and father, royal power and Shaftesbury, Absalom and Achitophel. It reminded us the great theory of Hobbes where everybody is against everybody means war against all. Along with Dryden’s own view of politics, one of the most prominent political theorists of his time had been consulted to expose its influence on the political history of the Restoration England.
Keywords: Absalom and Acidophil, Hobbes, Cunningness, Unscrupulousness
Cite This Article As: Md. Nawsher Oan, Mahbubur Rahman ASM, Sarkar DK, Md. Faisal Haque (2017). The Role of Molana Abd-ul-Hamid Badayuni in politics of All India Sunni Conference under the platform of All India Muslim League (1937 to 1947). Inter. J. Eng. Lit. Cult. 5(2): 30-35 |
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