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    also highlights her identity as the queen when she says “I love and yet am forced to seem to hate”. This illustrates her role as a queen to put her country before her own desires. Although it is believed that this poem was addressed to the French Duke Anjou, Queen Elizabeth I also uses personification to represent the idea of love (142). In fact, she uses the “monsieur” to symbolize marriage in a way that allows the reader to believe that it is an actual person. Furthermore, she says “My care is

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    Queen Elizabeth I was not all that she is today. She was hated, mistreated, and discarded. She was abandoned,imprisoned, and excommunicated. She went through many trials, until she was crowned Queen of England. Queen Elizabeth I had changed England forever. She did unexplainable things, and the hardest trials. She carried England on her shoulders, and carried it through the storm. She helped England grow, and prosper. By doing this, she is not the unloved little girl that she once was, she is now

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    England was reformed and fortified to be one of the most powerful countries in the known world. Elizabeth was born in the Greenwich Palace on September 7, 1533 to Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII of England. (Stated on page 1 of Crompton, Samuel Willard. Queen Elizabeth and England's Golden Age. Chelsea House, 2005. Print.) She was born into the dynasty of the Tudors, a cantankerous royal family. Elizabeth had a cruel and unseemly childhood. Her mother, the second wife of King Henry was found guilty

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    Elizabeth I, monarch of England, and Marie de l’Incarnation, a French nun, both invoked God and other forms of religious power to stake their claims to authority. Elizabeth’s role as a queen came at a time when her country was going through political turmoil. Marie’s role as a missionary in New France was to civilize the indigenous people. Although working to better their countries, both of these writers are vastly different due to their social positions. While Elizabeth had the substantial task

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    Mary Stuart of Scotland and Queen Elizabeth I of England, formed an unpleasant relationship that ended with execution. The scandalous rivalry between Mary, Queen of Scots and Queen Elizabeth I had a profound effect on the politics of their time. Queen Elizabeth I was much more regal than her cousin, Mary Stuart of Scotland, and ruled her kingdom with poise and sophistication. When Elizabeth came into power, she had to rebuild the ruins that her half-sister, Mary I, had left of England. The job proved

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    any man’s heart. She had the grace. She had the elegances. But most importantly, she had the unbreakable iron heart of a king. Her white, pale, innocent face fooled everyone, but it was her actions that gave her the real image of a leader. Queen Elizabeth I had many revolutionary impact on the English Society. It the way she rebuilt England up from the ruins left behind by her sister and the fact that she reunited England and finally made it a nation. She accomplished greatness without a man by her

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    A porcelain face untouched by time, pearls galore, lace [insert more common characteristics] − this is how one imagines Elizabeth I, the ‘Virgin Queen’. Even more importantly this is how she wanted to be viewed. To say portraits of the Protestant monarch that played a key role in her transformation into such an icon of agelessness and beauty, are purely propaganda is debatable. That being said, the concept of propaganda is one of a rich and evolving history. What today’s society views as propaganda

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    "How do I love thee?" is the question Elizabeth Barrett answers in the famous Sonnet 43 of Sonnets from the Portuguese. Elizabeth was a prominent Victorian poet who wrote this sonnet and others before marrying her husband Robert Browning. Sonnet 43 is well known sonnet published in 1850. It emphasizes a theme of the depth of love Elizabeth has for the man she adores. Elizabeth's everlasting love is well expressed through the use of appropriate sound, figurative language, and literary elements. The

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    The reign of Queen Elizabeth I was known as the Elizabethan Age. At this time, the Renaissance had spread to England. As a ruler, she was well educated, speaking about four different languages (Beck 963). However, it was not just her knowledge that made her into a popular monarch. Her personality helped her to become a successful politician as well. In a documentary about Queen Elizabeth I, it was stated, “She was vain, spiteful, arrogant. She was frequently unjust, and she was often maddeningly

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    Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I, Queen of England are well known for their tremulous relationship, with both queens eager to keep or obtain the English throne. Throughout her time as the Queen of France and even after, Mary was given the chance to abdicate her claim on the throne, yet she refused. This decision, as well as the evidence gathered in her trial later in life, would be her downfall. Margaret Tudor, sister to Henry VIII, married James IV, and gave birth to James V, Mary’s

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