The Renaisance DBQ
The Renaisance changed man’s view on the world in many ways. People viewed life much more differently before the Renaisance came about. This time period was known as the Middle Ages. In the Middle Ages most people believed everything in life was represented by a creature, animal and nearly everyone believened God or multiple Gods.They believed in things like Zodiacs (Doc D). Religion played a huge factor during the Middle Ages. The Catholic Church ruled nearly everything throught Europe. When the Renaisance started, it brang along many new ideas, inventions, and beliefs due to the new art, literature, and science. One area that changed man’s views from the Middle Ages to the Renaisance was through art. Theodore Rabb, who wrote Days of the
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In the excerpt from Everyman by an unknown aunthor in 1485 it “carr[ied] a message right out of the Middle Ages” (Doc B). In the poem Everyman, it states "Both strength, power, and beauty, Will fade from thee as flower in May” (Doc B). This means that people during the Middle Ages believed that ideals like strength, power, and beauty, which were important to many people, would eventually fade during their lives and were ot impoortat. Another quote from Everyman which gives insight into the thoughts of people from the Middle Ages was, “for ye shall hear, how our Heaven-King calleth everyman to a genral reckoning” (Doc B). This quote describes judgement day, which iswhat christians believe to be the pinnacle of life. Judgement Day decides weather a soul will either go to heaven or to hell. Overall, to people of the medieval period life was a sacrafice to become worthy of heaven Adversely the literature in the Renaissance illuustrated a vastly different viewpoint that humans and their lives on earth as the most important piece of existence Document B included an excerpt from Hamlet by William Shakespeare, which was written during the Reniaissance in 1601. In Hamlet, Shakespeare compares man to an angeles or gods (Doc B). He also refers to humans as “the pargon *of animals!” (Doc B). The word pargon means perfect model(Doc
In the excerpt from Everyman by an unknown aunthor in 1485 it “carr[ied] a message right out of the Middle Ages” (Doc B). In the poem Everyman, it states "Both strength, power, and beauty, Will fade from thee as flower in May” (Doc B). This means that people during the Middle Ages believed that ideals like strength, power, and beauty, which were important to many people, would eventually fade during their lives and were ot impoortat. Another quote from Everyman which gives insight into the thoughts of people from the Middle Ages was, “for ye shall hear, how our Heaven-King calleth everyman to a genral reckoning” (Doc B). This quote describes judgement day, which iswhat christians believe to be the pinnacle of life. Judgement Day decides weather a soul will either go to heaven or to hell. Overall, to people of the medieval period life was a sacrafice to become worthy of heaven Adversely the literature in the Renaissance illuustrated a vastly different viewpoint that humans and their lives on earth as the most important piece of existence Document B included an excerpt from Hamlet by William Shakespeare, which was written during the Reniaissance in 1601. In Hamlet, Shakespeare compares man to an angeles or gods (Doc B). He also refers to humans as “the pargon *of animals!” (Doc B). The word pargon means perfect model(Doc