How do interactions with other worlds (either real or imagined) help the English to define who they are (or should be) as a people/ nation?
How do interactions with other worlds (either real or imagined) help the English to define who they are (or should be) as a people/ nation?
November 20, 2020 Comments Off on How do interactions with other worlds (either real or imagined) help the English to define who they are (or should be) as a people/ nation? Uncategorized Assignment-help1. How do interactions with other worlds (either real or imagined) help the English to define who they are (or should be) as a people/ nation? Use three texts from our syllabus in your answer.2. Many of the authors we read during this period can be interpreted as protesting against something in their society. Describe how two of our authors have used writing as a way to articulate a protest or critique, explaining what they are writing against, and why they chose the genre they did in order to make their critique. 3. Describe how knowledge (especially knowledge that others do not possess) results in power in three of the texts we’ve read this semester, and comment on whether the author feels such knowledge is moral/ legitimate or not. Is secret knowledge a good thing in the Renaissance or not? If not, who should have it? Everyone or just a select few? If just a few, who should they be?4. Sonnets are a new form of poetry in the Renaissance, and they are devoted to love as a subject. Discuss how at least two of the poets from our readings push the idea of love in a new direction through their poetry. Or, discuss how at least two of the poets from our readings provide a new understanding of love as compared with that displayed in any of the Medieval works we read. The list of works read include: Shakespere sonnets, Chaucer “the wife of Baths tale”, Chaucer the cantervurry tales, done poems, Marlowe dr. faustus, Utopidfpa, Hariet, Best, and Cavendish.