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Conclusion
In general, Marlowe remains within the framework of humanistic ideology, although crisis tendencies clearly appear in his work, which are expressed, apparently, not only in numerous “medieval” motifs, in particular in the motif of fate, which runs through all of Marlowe's work, starting from "Dido, Queen of Carthage", where the motif of fate is, indicates Parfenov, formal character, and ending with the unfinished poem “Hero and Leander”, where this motif reaches its apogee; crisis tendencies are expressed in doubt in Renaissance ideals, in the possibility of achieving the Renaissance ideal of man, in the character of Tamerlane, the only hero of Marlowe's tragedies corresponding to the humanistic ideal, the prerequisites for conflict with the Universe are laid. According to Parfenov, the aspirations of the heroes lead them to an inevitable conflict with the environment, according to Parfenov, Marlowe sees the inconsistency of humanistic ideology, but does not yet abandon it. At the same time, Marlowe in his tragedies refers to extremely relevant subjects for his time —in three of his five tragedies, Marlowe refers to historical subjects — in the XVI century in England, interest in historical works increased enormously — in the European historiography of the XVI century, there was a fairly large number of works devoted to Tamerlane, in the second half of the century several free translations about Tamerlane appeared in England; “Edward II” is based on the extremely popular chronicle of Holinshed, in the "Paris Massacre” Marlo refers to events contemporary to him; the legend of Faust became widespread in the second half of the XVI century, in 1587 the first printed account of this legend was published, two years later the tragedy of Marlowe was created. Marlowe undoubtedly took into account the interests and tastes of the mass audience, on the other hand, Marlowe had to take into account censorship conditions. (There is information from contemporaries, perhaps not entirely reliable, about the extreme atheism of Marlowe and his blasphemous statements about the New Testament and Christ. At the same time, in Faust, the main character is also condemned from a Christian standpoint.) Marlowe's views may have been influenced by the fact that his creative activity was very short— Marlowe was engaged in professional drama for only six years — the evolution of Marlowe's views may have remained incomplete.
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” and “To the Virgins, Make Much of Time” is similar in theme. The theme for both stories was Carpe Diem. Even though the Theme was similar, the difference in each poem was the Tone, Rhyme Scheme and the type of poem. The tone for Marlowe’s is optimistic and loving and the poem is pastoral. The Rhyme scheme for Marlowe’s poem is the first two lines rhyme and the last two lines in the poetry.