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Doctor Faustus

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English

 

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Robert J

 

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June 22, 2011

 

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University

 

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A

 

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In the late sixteenth century man is standing on the edge of reason, with a quizzical mind, with a desire for information so voracious it clouds ones ability to believe even the most basic truths. This is inability in Faustus is evident early in the play when he makes no distinction between the Biblical idea of hell and that of the Grecian afterlife in Elysium, boldly stating “This word damnation terrifies him not” (Scene 3, line 59) and when he is then unwilling to believe Mephastophilis proof of hell: Think’st thou that I, who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells In being deprived of everlasting bliss! (Scene 3, Lines 78-81) Faustus fancies himself a great thinker- a pragmatist- on par with the “old philosophers” and conquerors yet he can not see what so clearly lies before him: damnation...
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The Good Angel tries to petition Faustus to ask forgiveness of God thereby securing his acceptance back into the Kingdom of Heaven, whilst the Evil one disputes it, “No Faustus, think of honour and wealth” (Scene 5, line 21). But Faustus is damned even before his incantation of the devil when he thinks of material wealth before the spiritually divine...
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