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Doctor Faustus as a Renaissance Hero

Write a note on Doctor Faustus as a Renaissance Hero Doctor Faustus is the most famous drama of Christopher Marlowe . Marlowe belonged to the Elizabethan Age and he was one of the top University Wits of his age.He did not write a lot of plays but all his plays are of high quality and he can be easily composed with his contemporary William Shakespeare.In Doctor Faustus ,we can find Renaissance elements and many people think that Doctor Faustus is a Renaissance Man. The word Renaissance means Rebirth . Here it means Rebirth of Classical knowledge of Greece and Rome .What happened after the Roman Empire got destroyed? Europe fell into Dark Age and then,the christan church was the dominant force.There was no good education and knowledge.Ordinary people did not have any scope of gaining knowledge and this way superstition became more common in the society, However,in the 12th century and 13th century in Italy the Renaissance Movement started.The main goal was to

"Fair is Foul, Foul is Fair"----Explain (Macbeth)

"Fair is Foul, Foul is Fair"----Explain (Macbeth) It is an opening scene in act-1 scene-1 of William Shakespeare's tragedy play Macbeth , ends with this ringing cry of three Witches . This is the most important Witches's speech in the drama for in the course of the play, it would be fate someone's. The Three Witches came together in a heath. The atmosphere is full of thunder and lightning, with the dropping rain they started talking to each other. They predict after the end of the battle will be before setting of the sun, they will meet Macbeth . Finally they leave the place with this rhythmic cry, what is fear, is foul to them and vice versa . It is not clear in the mind of readers but when Macbeth appears as a fair character at first but in the course of the play, he transforms into a foul one. So, the question is how is this information available to the witches . It is the answer that they are Supernatural Agents and they have the powe

"The hapless soldiers sigh" by William Blake

What does William Blake suggest in the line " The hapless soldiers sigh"? It symbolises how men are drafted into war and have no choice to serve their country . As these soldiers unwillingly march to the beat of the country's forceful drum, they know their lives will be taken, as their " sigh runs in blood down the palace wall" . Blake uses the sense of destruction to explain how people are forced to repair " the weakness " and " woe" of their society. In the third stanza of London , William Blake raises his poetic hand to protect the life of boys who are involved into war force full only for penury. He criticized the authorities like the Church and the State who are responsible for that brutal war , that is nothing but the shadow of life through the soldiers and using words like " sigh " . W.Blake so how appalled he is at how authorities are being immune to the distress of their common people. The soldier

Fra Lippo Lippi say about his early life.

Fra Lippo Lippi say about his early life. Fra Lippo Lippi is an 1855 dramatic monologue written by the Victorian poet Robert Browning which first appeared in his collections Men and women. Throughout this poem, Browning depicts A 15th century real life Painter Filippo Lippi and his early life through dramatic monologue. Fra Lippo Lippi, introduce us to the monk as he is being interrogated by some Medici Watchmen who have caught him out of at night because Lippo's patron is Cosimo de Medici, he has little to fear from the guards but he has been out partying and is clearly in a mood to talk. He shares with the men the hardship of monastic life. He is forced to carry on his relationship with women in secret and his superiors are always defeating his Good Spirit. If he was orphaned while still a baby and starved until his aunt gave him over to a convent, but with the help of a monk , he achieved a new life to improve himself and become a good man and a good Painter.

'Happy Isles' and 'Achilles' from Ulysses poem

"It may be we shall touch the happy isles...the great Achilles,who we know" ---locate the lines and explain the allusions involved in 'Happy Isles' and 'Achilles'.---Explain (Ulysses) These lines are extracted from Victorian poet Alfred lord Tennyson's Ulysses in 63-64 lines. The story recalled the great epics of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and mighty characters- Ulysses and Achilles . In the poem, the speaker Ulysses said of Heaven and Achilles to his best friend by the touch of the poet's poetic sensation. " Happy Isles "means the islands of the blessed, a place where big- time Greek Heroes like Achilles enjoyed perpetual summer but now he died. Achilles was the mighty character of Iliad who came back the honour of Greece in the War of Troy . Here in the poem, Ulysses realises that he and his companions might die but would feel peace with that. If they die, they might even get to go to heaven and visit their old

Poetic journey From Experience to Innocent in Fern Hill poem

"I was Prince of Apple towns"-- who is the prince here? What do you mean by apple towns?-----Explain (Fern Hill) This line taken from Modernist poet Dylan Thomas' s Fern Hill , here in the poem, Prince is the poet himself. He came back on his journey from experience to innocent childhood through poetic imagination, where he had spent most of the time during childhood. ' Apple towns ' referred to nature and the age of childhood of the poet, mentioned in the first stanza line number 6 where the poet praised the good days of childhood and called himself as a Prince. It is a one kind of metaphor of youth. The poet describes it almost in a Blakian style from innocence to experience.

"The Fiend looked up, and knew His mounted scale aloft" from Paradise Lost

"The Fiend looked up, and knew His mounted scale aloft: Nor more; but fled Murmuring, and with him fled the shades of night"-----Explain (Paradise Lost ) These quoted lines are extracted from the last two lines of Paradise Lost Book- 4 written by Puritan poet John Milton . When Satan is ready to fight with Gabriel in paradise but that time, the appearance in the sky of a pair of Golden Scale and Satan recognises the sign and flies off. Satan , after completed his evil planning to establish his kingdoms on Paradise , the house of Adam and Eve take rest in paradise as many form such as Cormorant, a bird of a prey; lion, tiger and ultimately caught up as the form of toad by Gabriel's guard's while tempted Eve at night. Gabriel who questions Satan about his motives for entering Eden . Satan crafting replies that those in Hell seek a better place. He had come to scout on earth but not to do evil. After further discussion, Gabriel accuses Satan

With whom was John Keats engaged in 1819?

Romantic poet , John Keats engaged with Fanny Brawne in October 1819 but that happiness got stop when John Keats knew that he was dying from tuberculosis, and Bright Star , a such a memorable love poem written by Keats to dedicated his beloved as a symbol of immortal love , the poem is in part about this awareness that he will die young.

"The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother, the waves are our comrades all" --Explain (Coromandal Fishers)

"The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother, the waves are our comrades all" --Explain ( Coromandal Fishers ) This extract is taken from prestigious women Sarojini Naidu's poem Coromandal Fishers . It is an address to the Coromandel fishers to call of the duty. The speaker gives a call to his brother fishermen to get up from their bed. The wind is hushed now, so it is the time for them to gather their nets from the shore and shed them boats free from sailing. They should not delay but make haste. The sea is their mother, brother is the cloud and waves their comrades through this line, the speaker points to the fact that the fishermen will get their companions all the time if they call him. The sea, the clouds and the waves are part of nature. The fishermen have to depend much upon them because rough sea is the hostile for fishing, agitated clouds are adverse to fishing and the wild waves can be destructive for their profession. Therefore as the fisherme

"Ah ! Then, I feel I have not lived in vain" - Explain (To the Pupils of Hindu College)

"Ah ! Then, I feel I have not lived in vain" - Explain ( To the Pupils of Hindu College ) With this quoted line, Derozio's Sonnet To the Pupils of Hindu College comes to end . Though this line Derozio points out the self esteem of a teacher. In this Sonnet, great teacher, Derozio portraits the picture of an overall development of his students. Their minds are like the petals of young flowers, slowly but steadily like the young birds of Summer, the students develop mentally and physically. In this way of life, many new preparations shed their influence upon the students. They worship the omnipotence of truth . Derozio becomes very happy when he finds that the goddess of fame embraces his students when his students will be successful, he will consider that his life was not a vain one. The success of a teacher depends on the success of his students. There is a Sanskrit sloka ," Ajnana Timir Andhasya Jnana Anjana Shalaakaaya Chakshu Runmilitam Yena T

"Are changed, changed, utterly:/// A terrible beauty is born" ------explain(Easter 1916)

This lines are extract from Rabindranath Tagore's friend and one of the greatest Irish poet W.B Yeats' s Irish freedom poem Easter 1916. It indicates the birth of a beauty which is terrible. The Irish people where fire and sword of any purpose and any intention of winning their freedom from the British laws. Yeats made them in Fire and Fury, exchange words them with smile. They were mocked as Clowns . It seemed that people can never win freedom, but as time passes on, a set of changing clouds appears in their mind and open the door of reality of freedom . They participated in this Easter , rising and they were shot down to the Englishmen . So, it change occured and when these people changed, a beauty was bond in a terrible way. " man is born free from everywhere he is in chains" said by Rousseau. It means that man's first duty to break the chains to free. The Irish Clowns got inspired by a national motivation and they jumped into the fire of free

Hearts with one purpose alone //Though summer and winter seem//Enchanted to a stone //To trouble the living stream--------------- explain (Easter 1916)

W. B. Yeats manifests his ambivalent attitude, he explain the significance of their existence in the common flux of the normal life where all things are changing and drifting minute by minute in Easter 1916. Here, The Irishman where concentrate on one single purpose to the The exclusion of all other considerations of life . Their hearts are fixed with one purpose - had a single absorbing purpose- the Liberation of their country, which made them an ever- fixed mark in the universal flux. The image of the stone represented there enduring reputations as well as there inhuman inflexibility .The "enchantment" links the moment of death with one purpose alone. The stone is cold and lifeless but the living stream has warmth and magic . By being " stone ", they disturb the smooth flow of the life of men. he celebrates the stream against which the stone stand out motionless. Stone is the symbol of Frozen heart. Yeats suggests that the soul and steadfast concent