How Did The Renaissance Impact Life

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How the Renaissance Impacted Life The Renaissance was the time when God and other religious bodies stopped being seen as the answer to everything. People started seeing themselves in new ways. During this era people started to question many things and broke themselves free from the traditional religious ideas and they started to discover many things by themselves that forever changed the way we look at things now. As man 's view started changing, it particularly changed how we thought about literature, art, anatomy, and astronomy. The Renaissance changed the perspective in which literature written. ¨Ye [man] think sin in the beginning full sweet, which in the end causeth thy soul to weep...¨. This excerpt was written in the Middle Ages, and it mainly focuses on the sin of man. ¨What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty!...¨. Written during the Renaissance, by Shakespeare, he mainly focuses on the positive side of man, saying that we are a …show more content…

Drawings by Ptolemy show the Geocentric Universe, where the Earth is shown as being the center of the solar system and everything revolved around the Earth. An illustration done by Nicolaus Copernicus shows the Heliocentric Universe, where everything revolved around the sun, including Earth. However, the Heliocentric idea was not quick to be adopted, because religion was still a major influence. People during the Renaissance started to see that there was more to life than just them and the Earth. People started to see that they were not the only thing existing.(Doc C) The Renaissance forever changed people 's view on life. Much of what we believe in today was from the impact of the Renaissance. The Renaissance completely changed how we looked at life. If it wasn 't for the Renaissance, we may not know as much as we do today. This age changed who and what man is in many vital