Milton's Dalila:An Incarnation of Temptation

摘要

John Milton's Samson Agonistes drew on the materials from the Old Testament and told a sorrow story of Samson who ex-perienced a misfortune and then was reborn as an Israelite hero. In Samson Agonistes, Samson's wife Dalila is an important charac-ter, who was portrayed by Milton as an incarnation of temptation. Through building Dalila's role, Milton could represent his own un-derstanding of Samson's story, and meanwhile Dalila's temptation influenced on Samson's destiny from his degradation to his spir-itual rebirth.