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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WMDAED: Faustus reasons that everyone is a sinner and the punishment. Old Testament view of God, punishment over forgiveness
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NBAH: Faustus' attraction to the dark arts, paradoxical , scares an Elizabethan audience
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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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GFFITFA: Bad angel appeals to Faustus' greed / ambition, hamartia, temptation.
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TMMTHRM: Faustus' corruption to necromancy, repetition and fast paced sounds shows an urgency
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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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TUTAOM/FF: Faustus' arrogance when seeing Mephostiphilis' true form for the first time. Context: mocks Catholicism