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Card 16

Front

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 17

Front

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

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Card 18

Front

VIMHW: Faustus thinks his conjuring is heavenly, ironically. Mixes up hellish conjuring with heavenly virtue

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Card 19

Front

STGL/MOA/PA: Mephostophilis (context) can never tell a lie, like Lucifer, he makes it clear that he does not serve Faustus: should scare Faustus but it doesn't.

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Card 20

Front

RTNOG/WFIHTGHGS: Further reduces Faustus' conjuring, Faustus is made to appear less and less powerful. This is the first evidence of Faustus below something.

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Card 21

Front

WTIHNAIOOI: Monosyllabic, emphatic, pathos, Mephosophilis pays the eternal price, Faustus will too. But Faustus' hamartia, ambition leads to ignorance.

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Card 22

Front

TTEJOH: Mephostophilis gives Faustus the most precious knowledge he could want, of heaven, that it really is as good as it is storied to be.

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Card 23

Front

TWTTH/IBDOEB?: Mephostophilis asks Faustus whether he really thinks Mephostophilis would lie about such an amazing heaven. The punishment M. now faces, which could be Faustus.

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