Imprisonment

"Which shall I first bewail, / Thy Bondage or lost Sight, / Prison within Prison / Inseparably dark? / Thou art become ( O worst imprisonment!) / The Dungeon of thy self; thy Soul..." (151-156)
"Mess. Then take the worst in brief, Samson is dead. / Man. The worst indeed, O all my hope's defeated / To free him hence! but death who sets all free / Hath paid his ransom now and full discharge..." (1570-1573)

The first quote stuck out right away when I read it, and it stayed with me throughout the reading, keeping my mind on the different ways Samson was imprisoned at different times in the story. The end of the story and the second quote surprised me, because though Samson was able to break free in one sense and defeat his Philistine captives, his final and absolute(?) freedom was brought about only by death. Considering the many ways Samson was imprisoned; blindness, lack of strength, physical imprisonment, etc; I think it might be interesting to explore from which of his imprisonments could only death free him, and how we might encounter similar imprisonments now.