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Mutabilitie (also called Change) is the protagonist of the two cantos that survive from Spenser’s seventh book in The Faerie Queene (he planned twelve books but only fully completed six). She is descended from titans and tries to argue that she is more powerful than Jupiter and so should rule heaven, but she is unsuccessful.
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Mutabilitie (Change) Character Timeline in The Faerie Queene
The timeline below shows where the character Mutabilitie (Change) appears in The Faerie Queene. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Two Cantos of Mutabilitie: Canto VI
The first Canto of Mutabilitie, numbered Canto VI, is about Mutabilitie (also called Change), who is a daughter of the...
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Mutabilitie tries to win favor with various gods but fails. She angers Jupiter so much that...
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Mutabilitie appeals to take her case to Nature on Arlo-Hill. Arlo-Hill used to be an idyllic...
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Two Cantos of Mutabilitie: Canto VII
Mutabilitie makes her argument to Nature on Arlo-Hill while other gods are also there to witness....
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...is time that rules the earth and that it’s the gods who rule time. But Mutabilitie replies that even the gods change and aren’t immune to time, since even Jupiter was...
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Nature considers the arguments of Mutabilitie and Jupiter in silence for a while. At last, Nature gives a verdict: she agrees...
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