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The Desire Expressed in Parodies: Christopher Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage

Christopher Marlowe made a new and unique attempt while perfectly parodying Vergilius’s Aeneas. He parodies the gods and Aeneas, the Roman hero, and finally demystifies their authority and power. For Vergilius Dido, caught in the tactics of the gods, was used as a tool of an obstacle necessary to completely dramatize the Roman heroic narrative. But she became a target of criticism that she was obsessed with frenetic love, blocked the hero s way, and led her Carthage to ruin. In contrast, Marlowe, through Dido’s voice, criticized both the Roman gods and the hero. In this paper, I would argue that the object that Marlowe ultimately tried to parody was the contradictory social order of the time. He was called a heretic, atheist, and homosexual, and from that point of view it is natural that his subversive disposition mocked the hypocritical authority and order of the time. This character of his leads to Faustus and Barabas.