“My analysis of Sidney's argument will be drawn through the lens of salvation. Something Sidney had during writing that Plato didn’t. Salvation was something delivered through delightful verse to Sidney’s 16th century England, whereas Plato’s Greece was grappling with this idea, using allegory, sciences and poetry to try to define and find what would preserve their immortal souls.”

“In the play, Dr. Faustus, Marlowe teeters the line on many subjects that early 1600s England would have seen as contentious, in a revolutionary way, with complex characters and new storylines. These topics include the likes of religion, social class, and power– All of which work as a critique of the Renaissance man. The specific piece of prose I’m analyzing is at the beginning of Scene 5, where Dr. Fautus states, 

Now Faustus, must thou needs be damned,

 And canst thou not be saved. 

What boots it then to think of God or heaven?

  Away with such fancies and despair, 

Despair in God, and trust in Beelzebub. 

Now go not backward: no, Faustus, be resolute; 

Why waverest thou? O something soundeth in mine ears; 

‘Abjure this magic, turn to God again’. 

Ay, and Faustus will turn to God again. To God? He loves the not.”

“T.S Elliot and Oscar Wilde were 2 writers on opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of their personalities, but their works and subject matter focused on similar themes and critiqued aspects of their own society that are tangential to each other. The works, “The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock” by Elliot and The Importance of Being Earnest by Wilde both act as a critique on the author’s rapidly transitioning societies’. Wilde could be seen as taking a more comedic approach through his heavy satire and whimsical dialogue, and Elliot, a more neurotic approach, through his dialogue and use of form. Both writers share this rolling theme in acting as lens for their societies in other works, yet in these 2 works, we see the focus on critiquing a men’s role/place, and ideas of domestic relationships in budding societies. These critiques are taken one step further through the forms of the works; “The Importance of Being Earnest” as a play, and “The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock” as a dramatic monologue”