1.1 part 1

Question 1

what is a soliloquy?

Answer 1

where a character speaks their thoughts outloud despite other characters (often alone on the stage)

Question 2

meaning of finite

Answer 2

limited

Question 3

what technique is used at the beginning of the 1st soliloquy?

(….end?/….end.)

Answer 3

epiphora

Question 4

what is epiphora?

Answer 4

repetition of the ends of two or more sentences

Question 5

purpose of epiphora in the 1st soliloquy?

Answer 5

highlight/emphasize that Faustus feels human knowledge is finite

Question 6

what four ‘things’ does Faustus quote and then dismiss their ideas?

Answer 6

traditional principles/prominent figures

Question 7

why does Faustus reject the four traditional principles ideas?

Answer 7

he not only rejects the disciplines, he also rejects what he feels is perhaps old fashioned

instead of believing knowledge/specialism must be lead by a figure head he feels knowledge should perhaps be more demographic (AO3: during this time knowledge became accessible to the general public via the printing press)

Question 8

what is a syntax?

Answer 8

the ordering of words

Question 9

what is the syntax like in the 1st soliloquy?

Answer 9

it is controlled

1. names a scholar
2. quotes Latin
3. rejects traditional way of thinking

Question 10

how does the syntax of the first soliloquy present Faustus?

Answer 10

scholarly/pompous

Question 11

what is the meaning of the quote, ‘‘Is to dispute well logic’s chiefest end?’’ (line 8)

Answer 11

Faustus decides that Aristotle teaches that the goal (end) of logic is merely to dispute well – in other words, to conduct formal arguments without making errors of logic. If so, he can gain nothing further from Aristotle, because he knows how to do that already

Question 12

how does the quote ‘‘Is to dispute well logic’s chiefest end?’ present Faustus?

Answer 12

it presents Faustus as almost hubristic, he desires to go beyond the human knowledge -> overreaching

Question 13

how does Marlowe have Faustus misquote the bible?

Answer 13

he chooses to miss the rest of the quote ‘eternal life’

Question 14

why does Marlowe have Faustus misquote the bible?

Answer 14

evidence of self interest, he blasphemally misquotes to suit his own ends (to seek knowledge beyond the human realm)

this presents him as:
-hubristic?
-hamartia of greedy desire for knowledge/pride?
-overreaching?
-foolish?