Dr Faustus quotes
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- Created on: 28-03-13 19:37
"His waxen wings did mount above his reach,"
- Chorus 1, Line 21
- Foreshaddowing
- Dramatic irony
- tragedy play
- Stories within stories - Icarus
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"The reward of sin is death?"
- Scene 1, line 40
- Psychologically complex
- Devilish/hellish threat - might convince modern audience - make them think
- Religious attitudes in 16th century England
- Psychological style - deep effect
- Foreshadowing
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"Within this circle is Jehovah's name, / ...
- ...Forward and backward annagrammatized;..."
- Scene 3, Line 8-9
- Religious attitudes in 16th Century England to be in crisis.
- Blasphemous
- Shocks the audience - warns them that if you play around with black magic you will get bad results.
- Sets the scene for disaster.
- Dramatic irony
- This is the first point of corruption for Faustus. First bit of black magic he ever does.
- Melodramatic = circle on stage, mixing God's name and latin - visuals and sound on stage
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"No more than he commands must we perform."
- Scene 3, line 42
- Lucifer is more important than Faustus
- Mephastophilis more intriguing than Faustus
- Foreshaddowing and dramatic irony
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"For when we hear one rack the name of God, / ..."
- "Abjure the Scriptures, and his saviour Christ, / We fly in hope to get his glorious soul"
- Scene 3, line 46 - 48
- Mephastophilis is dominant and powerful
- Mephastophilis a more intriging character than Faustus
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"This word damnation terrifies not him,"
- Line 57, Scene 3
- Faustus trying to brave, ironic considering the end.
- In third person - he adapts his voice depending on who he is talking to. Suggests self importance.
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"Why this is hell, nor am I out of it."
- Scene 3, Line 76
- Mephastophilis more interesting than Faustus - more dimensions to him than typical devil
- Morality and tragedy play; teach lesson to audience & Faustus through Mephastophilis' story.
- Devilish/hellish threat - different reaction from audience NOW as religion isn't as prominent.
- Mephastophilis a tragic figure
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"Hell hath no limits"
- Scene 5, line 20
- Mephastophilis more interesting than Faustus
- Devilish/hellish threat
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"Come, I think hell's a fable."
- Scene 5, line 127
- Dramatic foreshaddowing
- anticipation
- Religious attitudes in 16th century England to be in crisis
- Devilish/hellish threat
- Dramatic irony
- Juxtaposition of sensuous and metaphysical/ceberal
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"[Enter (again) with a DEVIL dressed like a woman,
- "With fireworks"
- Scene 5, Line 143-144
- Shocking
- Theatrical
- Satire
- Comedy element
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"[Cross again, and FAUSTUS hits him..."
- "... a box of the ear, and they all run away"
- Scene 8, line 76
- Serious/Comedy scene overlap
- Audience find it funny because they are mostly Protestant
- Ironic that Faustus mocks the pope but in final scene asks for purgatory.
- Theatrical and psychological - Faustus has the chance to repent, could have asked pope for help but doesn't.
- Dramatic: break from serious stuff
- Spiritual aspects - especially if Catholic
- BATHOS: take something Catholic Church respects and mocks it.
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"What art thou, Faustus, but a man condemned to
- Die?"
- Scene 10, Line 117
- Psychological style
- tragedy
- Foreshaddowing
- Dramatic Irony
- Faustus is psychologically complex
- cerebral
- Realisation of his error is too late
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"But mercy, Faustus, of thy saviour sweet, ..."
- ".../ Whose blood alone must wash away thy guilt"
- Scene 12, line 44-45
- Another chance for Faustus to repent, but he doesn't take it!
- Frustrating for the audience
- Minor characters ARE important
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"[MEPHASTOPHILIS gives him a dagger]"
- Scene 12, line 49
- Mephastophilis more intreeging than Faustus.
- Mephastophilis always there to stop Faustus.
- Loses control = tragedy
- Mental or spiritual disorder? Mordern more likely to see this as metaphorical, but audeince take it literally
- No point in asking for salvation, because he's going to die anyway
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"But Faustus' offence can ne'er be pardoned!"
- Scene 13, Line 13
- Faustus' realisation of his error/s is too little too late
- Audience know whats going to happen, because he knows what is going to happen
- Links to Othello's end - remember the good things I have done - "remember that I have been a student here these thirty years" (line 16)
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"Ah my God, I would weep, but the devil draws/..
- "... in my tears!"
- Scene 13, Line 25-26
- Soul is so corrupt that he cannot cry or reach for heaven
- Sensous AND cerebral
- Tragedy play
- Realisation of error
- devilish/hellish threat
- Psychological
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