Dr Faustus

   The last lesson we talked about Christopher  Marlowe  and his work Dr Faustus. I  made a research about this and I will mention about him and his work.

     

       Christopher  Marlowe   was well trained person . Despite  some researches  that state he took religious education , he was an atheist . In my opinion , he reflected his religious knowledge in his work Dr Faustus because we can see some religious knowledge like Satan (Lucifer) which can appear whoever he wants and about angel of goodness and badness.

   

     Dr Faustus who wants to be a greatest scientist and wants to make spell . So he makes a deal , with Satan. Firstly Dr Faustus is so confused, because Satan will give him whatever he wants along 24 years but the Satan wants his soul forever . Dr Faustus will accepts this but he does not know whether it is true or not . At the same time he hears  some voice of some body that  I   think he is the angel of goodness, tells him not to do this, it is bad idea , be  good man and you are a good man . But the angel of badness wins . Dr Faustus makes a deal with Satan and he sells his soul. However the angel of goodness is still  with him , while he is signing the deal with his blood, his blood clots for a while . the reason for this it is a bad idea and  the angel of goodness is still trying him to turn back . In spite of everything, he signs the deal. Dr Faustus  can become whoever he wants  and he can receive whatever he wants. But 24 years passes down quickly .

    

      If I were Dr Faustus, I would think so much .We can easily see, all of the streaks prove that it is bad idea. .If I were him , whenever I saw clotting of my blood , I would give up. In movie whenever Dr Faustus thinks to give up the deal , the Satan is appeared to him as a Elizabeth. Even he does not want to award his soul but he is appeared him as a Elizabeth and he becomes the victim of his passions .

     To sum up, if you want to make a decision, you should think so much especially making a deal with Satan . Someting that we want to obtain ,can not be good for us.

Renaissance Period

   The last lesson we talked about Renaissance , what happen in this period , famous writers and works of this period.

   
   Renaissance means rebirth. This meaning was really reasonable for Europe because they lived a term like middle age and this term was regression for them. After middle age , they rebirth and they went into Renaissance . Some important event were lived in this period like printing press , discovery of America etc. They deeply effected Renaissance movement. Especially , printing press was milestone of Renaissance  and Europe. With the help of printing press , cost of the books declined. This means that everybody can buy and read a book , and  everybody  can learn every knowledge by themselves. When we compare this with the middle age, in this term everybody cannot buy a book , they even do not  know how to read and write.  The Church was dominate. So the people were uneducated . But in Renaissance Period , almost everything changed. The people  started to have knowledge , the Church lost value . Humanism gained important.

    Literature developed in Europe at the same time Humanism gained importance. Man became center of  world , They thought that everything on the earth was for man . Themes of literary work were man. In this period , with the help of printing press literary works became common. In addition to this some dramas were written . However they were written to play not to read , the reason of this most of the people were un educated and dramas became one of the most effective way. In this term , there was a lot of important writer  like Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe , Sir Thomas More etc.

 One of the most important writer of this term is Shakespeare. He created magnificent pieces He is important author both in this period ( Renaissance) and today . Themes of his works were comedy , supernatural events, love … He wrote important literary works like Romeo and Juliet,  Hamlet , Macbeth . Some people think Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe was the same people because they lived in the same period  in the same country, and their writing styles were almost the same . But  their life styles , families were different . They can be same person or not .

   To sum up Renaissance was illumination for Europe . They developed themselves so much especially in the part of literature.

Life in the Middle Ages

In the last lesson we talked about Middle Age and life in Europe. When we compare with these days' Europe and Middle Age, everything was so weird.

 Firstly, people who lived in Europe was not equal. Feodality dominated in Europe because there was class distinction. Aristocrats and reverends together governed the bourgeois and villagers. Almost all of the people was uneducated. Just reverends could read so they determines everything. Reverends could lead on villagers by using religion and they could easily exploit them. There was scolastic thought. Whatever the church said, everybody thought it was true. When we compare the East and West in the Middle Ages, scolastic thought exploited the West. However, in the East there were important scientists such as Farabi, Avecenna, Averroes etc. While the East was trainig important scientists, the West was living with scolastic thought without experiment and observation. The West lived like this until Crusades in which they faced to Muslims and they took some knowledge like paper, compass etc. With the help of them, they started to develop themselves. 

Do you know where the phrase of ''God Bless you'' comes from? The Middle Ages' Europe struggled with Blachdeath. One of the symptoms was sneeze. If somebody sneezed, everybody was afraid of Blackdeath and said ''God bless you.'' People who lived in Middle Ages' Europe did not take a shower because they thought that microorganism of Blackdeath spread with water. Most of the Europens took shower once or twice in their life. 

I want to talk about literature. One of the most important works of Middle Ages was Canterbury Tales. These tales was created by Geoffrey Chaucer. Cantercury Tales occurs some stories. They are about pilgrims who went London to see St. Thomas Backet's grave. While they were going, they told some stories to enjoy along their travel. These stories was irony. They were created to critisize the social life and these stories were moral and religious. They were both enjoyable and didactic. 

To sum up, when we look at the past, Europans developed themselves so much. They pay importance science and art. So we can easily see the differences.