Faustus - Language
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- Created on: 20-05-19 18:52
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- Faustus
- Didactic
- Intended to teach
- Particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive
- Intended to teach
- Satire
- Use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticise other people's stupidity or vices
- Tragic trajectory
- Begins with a protagonist at the pinnacle of his achievement and ends with his fall into damnation
- Blank verse
- The uniformity and regularity of Marlowe's blank verse underlines the impression that Faustus is a Renaissance scholar
- Contrast this with the use of blank verse in Faustus' final soliloquy in the play
- The uniformity and regularity of Marlowe's blank verse underlines the impression that Faustus is a Renaissance scholar
- Third person
- Split personality?
- Self-glorification?
- Arrogance?
- Duality?
- Distancing?
- Persuasive technique?
- Alexandrines
- An iambic line of six feet, rather than five (iambic hexameter)
- ‘One drop/ would save/ my soul, / half a / drop. Ah, / my Christ!’
- An iambic line of six feet, rather than five (iambic hexameter)
- Active verbs
- Active verbs depict bodies being fed into the gaping jaws of Hell, as depicted in many Medieval paintings and images
- 'tossing', 'boil', 'broiling', and 'flaming'
- Monosyllables
- Faustus' second line is his final monologue, with its string of monosyllables, echoes the striking of the clock
- 'Now hast thou but one bare hour to live'
- Chiastic structure
- One in which a series of scenes in the first half is paralleled in reverse order by scenes in the second half
- Faustus' reference to suicide in 2.3, balances an attempt in 5.1
- Everything one Angel says produces an equal and opposite reaction from the other
- Faustus' prayers to Christ are negated by his conjurations with the devil
- One in which a series of scenes in the first half is paralleled in reverse order by scenes in the second half
- Parallel concepts
- In the introductory soliloquy, Faustus begins by pondering the fate of his life and ends with his decision to give his soul to the devil
- Didactic
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