Dido And Aeneid Analysis

When it comes to Marlowe, such clothing takes a tri-layered form. He takes the story of Dido from the story of Dido and Aeneas by Virgil and creates his own version of the story, converting it into a satirizing play. By doing so, Marlowe too attempts to cling his name to the chain of numerous famous names and stories so that his name will also last. He, additionally, brings together the three dimensions of time, namely the past, the present and the future, in order to monumentalize his text. He mocks the past events and the way they are presented to the readers, shows his work to a present audience and degrades the future by undermining the impact of it when dealing with past and present issues. We, thus, observe that the text itself is a center of

By writing an epic, Virgil attempts to introduce the past events to his present readers. Yet, his text fundamentally carries out a future-oriented, imperial ideology, which means that through the monumentalizing his text, Virgil aims at immortality in two ways: one being the fame Aeneid would bring, the other being the morals the Romans would acquire and pass on to the future generations through Aeneid. In that sense, Virgil is in line with his hierarchical timeline where he prioritizes the future, which is also why he wants to monumentalize his work. As for how he does so, Virgil takes advantage of the past which promises glory and prosperity while promoting bravery and nobility. Then comes the question of when he does that, to which the answer is the present time. The creation of such monument takes place in his limited lifetime although it aims to prolong its own literary life to eternity. As a result, by monumentalizing his Aeneid, Virgil hierarchies not only the future, the past and the present; but also the questions of why, how and when,