The Tempest - Renaissance Attitudes

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A Levels A2 English Literature Mind Map on The Tempest - Renaissance Attitudes, created by Serenaa on 05/06/2014.
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The Tempest - Renaissance Attitudes
  1. Believed in magic
    1. Elizabethan Witchcraft Act
    2. Believed in hell and the devil
      1. Edward Alleyn
        1. Wore a cross under his costume; audience thought they saw an extra devil on stage
      2. Patriarchal society
        1. Women owned by father and then husband
          1. 'my rich gift'
            1. 'Worthily purchased, take my daughter'
              1. 'she is thine own'
            2. Protestant society
              1. Pope scene in Dr Faustus would have pleased the majority Protestant audience - though would have offended any Catholics
              2. Marriage
                1. Essential for health of Protestant society
                2. Great Chain of Being
                  1. It details a strict, religious hierarchical structure of all matter and life, believed to have been decreed by God.

                    Annotations:

                    • The chain starts from God and progresses downward to angels, demons (fallen/renegade angels), stars, moon, kings, princes, nobles, men, wild animals, domesticated animals, trees, other plants, precious stones, precious metals, and other minerals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_chain_of_being
                  2. New world, discovery, colonisation, conquest
                    1. Attitudes to revenge
                      1. 'wild justice'
                        1. 'Vengeance is mine saith the Lord'
                          1. And forgiveness
                            1. Jesus says you should love your enemies; you have to forgive a brother who sins against you 70 x 7 times.
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