Sea Fever 1) Who wrote the poem ‘Sea Fever’? Ans:- John Masefield wrote the poem ’Sea Fever’. 2) What was the favourite place of the poet? Ans:- To see the sea was the favourite place of the poet. 3) What do you mean by steer? Ans:- Steer means to control the direction of movement. 4) What was the colour of mist on the sea’s face? Ans:- The colour of the mist was grey. 5) What thing did not the poet deny? Ans:- The poet can not deny the call of running tide. 6) Write the name of Sea-bird? Ans:- Sea-gull is the name of a sea-bird. 7) Who wants to live a gypsy life? Ans:- The poet wants to become a gypsy life. 8) Write the name of the sea-animal? Ans:- Whale, a name of the sea-animal. 9) What do you mean by whetted knife? Ans:- Whetted knife means sharpened knife. 10) What kind of day does the poet prefer for siling? Ans:- The poet prefers va...
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 find out the books of ancient Greece and Rome and again study them and discover the knowledge.It was like breaking the darkness of medival Europe.In Doctor Faustus, Renaissance has come in many ways .Here I am going to discuss about the Renaissance elements in Doctor Faustus then,the first thing ,we can find about him is that he was a scholar. He valued knowledge more than everything else.He was not satisfied with the knowledge he acquired.He wanted to gather more knowledge. This thirst in him is a very important Renaissance element. Renaissance spirit was to gather knowledge,people should sacrifice their life.
Renaissance also praised individualism instead of society. Faustus was an individualistic type of hero.He did not care for what others thought or what the society said. Instead,he wanted to have his own ideas and challenge others . It is not that he was always right but had individualistic ideas all the way in the drama.
I have stated earlier that Renaissance challenged the supremacy of Catholic Pope in the Vatican. The same thing can be seen by Doctor Faustus. He has challenged Christianity and taken the support of evil. Mephistopheles was evil and he wanted to take the soul of Doctor Faustus,well,Doctor Faustus exchanged his soul for gaining more knowledge that would be within the power of Faustus.
A very important Renaissance element was an Appreciation of beauty and art. When Faustus became very powerful then he wanted to have a very beautiful wife and he selected Helen was the most beautiful woman in ancient Greece and for her the battle between Troy and Greece was fought. Also,it is clear from the drama that Faustus had a good appreciation of art. Here ,I like to say that in Renaissance Italy's painters and sculptors like Michael Angelo,Leonardo da Vinci,Rafael produced . Some great piece of works and thus changed the history of human civilization, Doctor Faustus had the same spirit about beauty.
There are some Anti-renaissance elements that we can see in Doctor Faustus. Well, what we can see is that after he became very powerful,he started to use his power for very small things .For example,he started to use his power often on nonsense and useless people. He turned to people he did not like as animals. He also became greedy for money and luxury. He did not give that much importance to knowledge for which his soul is sold. Instead,he spent his life for luxury and this is against the Renaissance spirit. Perhaps the most anti-renaissance element in Doctor Faustus is the death scene. When he was dying ,he became very cowardly and forgot everything and he wanted to get the forgiveness of God. He wanted to again come back to religion and christian ideas.
Of course,it is natural because when a person is dying ,he becomes very afraid. And secondary,if he was shown that he was not afraid of death and accepted death easily and did not care of Christianity then the audience of Christopher Marlowe's time would have suffered from the church that he was against Christianity. So,we have to think of the time that Marlowe wrote the drama.
In conclusion,I like to say that Doctor Faustus was a Renaissance Man and we have to remember the contribution of the scholars ,who dedicated their lives to bringing the Renaissance to Europe.
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