Doctor Faustus Revision
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- Created on: 20-01-19 12:57
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- Doctor Faustus
- Fate and Free Will
- Supernatural
- Ah stay, good Faustus, stay thy desperate steps!I see an angel hovers o'er thy headAnd with a vial full of precious graceOffers to pour the same into thy soul!Then call for mercy, and avoid despair. (42-47)
- The Old Man
- Ah stay, good Faustus, stay thy desperate steps!I see an angel hovers o'er thy headAnd with a vial full of precious graceOffers to pour the same into thy soul!Then call for mercy, and avoid despair. (42-47)
- Knowledge and Power
- Sin, Redemption/ Human Nature
- Context- 'Renaissance Individual'
- Characters
- Doctor Faustus
- Scholar from Wuttenburg
- Sells soul to Devil to gain unlimited knowledge and power
- Sees his mistakes early on but only realises doom at final scene
- Uses magic to play practical jokes and to travel
- Even though repents, ends up in hell
- Extremely naive
- Mephastophilis
- Distracts Faustus when wavers from deal
- Devil Faustus summons, he does everything for him
- Encourages Faustus to take blood oath
- He says that he is only pushing Faustus as he is miserable in hell and regrets repenting??
- Deceitful
- Wagner
- Faustus' student and servant
- Dabbles in the dark arts by borrowing spell book
- Loves being associated with Faustus
- Good and Bad Angels
- Appear when Faustus wavers
- One promises God's forgiveness and one tells to embrace dark magic
- Represent Faustus' two conflicting impulses in conscience
- Can also be seen as literal angels
- Robin
- Appears in comic scenes
- Silly attempts at magic
- Faustus also does magic for same purpose and same kind of magic
- That means Faustus wants magic for power but really he is not much different from a peasant doing magic
- Doctor Faustus
- KEY
- Written by Christopher Marlowe
- Tragedy
- 1604
- Its a play
- Secondary Reading
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