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Card 6

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HSUCN: Stark contrast to Faustus excelling at divinity (study of God), Faustus' corruption

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Card 7

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B,S: Broken rhyming couplet to end the prologue, unemphatic conclusion to a heroic build introduction of Faustus

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Card 8

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YATSBFAAM: Faustus' soliloquy, Marlowe presents Faustus' excess of ambition to be more. Everyman nature in tone, Aristotalean tragedy, hero = relatable

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Card 9

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WMDAED: Faustus reasons that everyone is a sinner and the punishment. Old Testament view of God, punishment over forgiveness

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Card 10

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NBAH: Faustus' attraction to the dark arts, paradoxical , scares an Elizabethan audience

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Card 11

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HGHWUTH: Good angel / bad angel first appears, Good angel appeals to Old Testament punishment imagery to deter Faustus. Only alarms audience and Faustus

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Card 12

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GFFITFA: Bad angel appeals to Faustus' greed / ambition, hamartia, temptation.

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Card 13

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TMMTHRM: Faustus' corruption to necromancy, repetition and fast paced sounds shows an urgency

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Card 14

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TFNFBR: Faustus readies himself to defy God and actually conjure, he knows this is wrong has to reassure himself (3rd person)

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Card 15

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TUTAOM/FF: Faustus' arrogance when seeing Mephostiphilis' true form for the first time. Context: mocks Catholicism

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