Doctor Faustus
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- Doctor Faustus
- the comic scenes
- the comic scenes are used to mock the deal Faustus made.
- "How my soul for a shoulder of mutton... i had need it well roasted, and good sauce to it, if i pay so dear
- the comic scenes are also used to mock Faustus low degree of magic
- "I thank you sir (****** it)"
- you can also see who has the power in these scenes
- "Mephistopheles transform him straight"
- the comic scenes are used to mock the deal Faustus made.
- is Faustus a morality play or a tragedy?
- Tragedy
- Aristotle wrote the definition of Tragedy in his poetics
- the story of a high born man with a fatal flaw "harmartia" followed by a peripeteia- fall from grace
- it sticks to the classic tragic plot- man at peak of life, falls out of grace and dies
- "graced with a doctor's name"
- "And melting heavens conspired his overthrow"
- tragic hero and villian
- Faustus is neither wholly good or wholly bad
- Marlowe creates a power complex
- Faustus is neither wholly good or wholly bad
- Aristotle wrote the definition of Tragedy in his poetics
- Morality play
- used to educate the audience in the rules of God.
- there is a moral message(didactic tale)- don't sell your soul to the devil
- appearance of the 7 deadly sins. "I am gluttony"
- the old man and the good angel as a moral concience
- chorus links to greek morality plays
- precceds the Gothic era
- Tragedy
- religion
- religion is the main point of the play
- Marlowe lived in Catholic times
- Doctor Faustus
- he is a ****
- hedonist, he is more bothered with earthly pleasures that heaven and hell
- "thou art but Faustus and a man" he wants to be a deity
- egoistic he thinks he is better than all subjects
- "hast thou not attained that end
- he knows that he is committing sin but he does not care for the consequence
- "this night I'll conjure, though I die thereof"
- has a "conflicted psyche" he is constantly changing his mind.
- Act 2 scene 1; "Canst thou not be saved... despair in God and trust in Beelzebub"
- "then swords knives, poison, guns, halters and envenomed steel are laid before me to dispatch myself"
- the semantic field of war shows his inner battle
- constantly compared to Icarus; "whose waxen wings did mount above their reach" & "whither should I fly"
- Icarus story implies that he has gone above the boundary of humanity
- no belief in heaven or Hell; "come I think Hell's a fable"
- easily tempted; "O this feeds my soul"
- Mocked for his low degree of magic; that not only give thee horns but makes thee wear them"
- the ending of the tale
- his final soliloquy is a stream of conciousness
- "Now has thou one bare hour to live
- monosyllabic to mimic the striking clock. Internal rhyme
- time is condensed; "time runs, the clock will strike" nothing he can do, illogical wants time to stop
- futility of life and continuity of time shown by the use of enjambement
- "perpetually" most fears an eternity of pain
- "all beasts are happy, for when they die their souls are soon dissolved in elements" he wants to turn into a beast, no hell
- the stage instructions heighten sense of impending doom
- reversal of dreams
- wanted man to love eternally, now wants death
- Mephistopheles
- the devils underling
- has the power to convert Faustus back to his way of thinking
- "thou traitor Faustus I arrest thy soul for disobedience to my sovereign lord"
- hunter
- "for when we hear one rack the name of God and abjure the scriptures... we fly in hope of his glorious soul"
- intenions are clear
- "for when we hear one rack the name of God and abjure the scriptures... we fly in hope of his glorious soul"
- Gay? "and a beautiful as Lucifer before his fall"
- always in complete control
- "marriage is but a ceremonial toy. if thou lovest me, think no more of it"
- not there at the end of the tale
- antagonist
- intellectual match
- adversary
- demonic
- "thou art to ugly to attend on me... got return an old Franciscan friar"
- change shape, horror and terror
- "thou art to ugly to attend on me... got return an old Franciscan friar"
- tormented
- capacity to suffer
- "in being deprived of eternal bliss"
- manipulator
- "O thou art deceived/ tut I warrant thee"
- plays upon Faustus' vanity and intellectual arrogance
- divert his attention. Helen of troy
- warning
- opponant
- sympathetic charcter
- "ah Mephistopheles" tries to pull him back
- the comic scenes
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