ACT 1,3 FAUSTUS AND MEPH

Question 1

1.3 quotes that show Faustus’ foolishness

Answer 1

Learn thou manly fortitude

This word damnation terrifies him not

How pliant is this mephistopheles

Question 2

1.3 quotes to show Faustus’ hubristic behaviour

Answer 2

I see there is virtue in my heavenly words + latin incantations

Go change into an old Franciscan Friar/ thou too art ugly to attend me

Question 3

1.3 quotes of Meph lack of power

Answer 3

I charge thee to wait upon me while I live/ I am servant o great Lucifer…I cannot follow them without his leave

Question 4

1.3 quotes on Meph truthfulness

Answer 4

Abjure the scriptures…and fly in hopes of obtaining his soul

I came hither my own accord

tasted the eternal joys of heaven/ tormented by the ten thousand blasts of Hell

Question 5

1.3 quotes to show Faustus as having noble desires

Answer 5

how come
that thou have come out of hell

Question 6

1.3 quotes to show Faustus as being corrupt by the end

Answer 6

live in all voluptuosness

Question 7

analyse I see there is virtue in my heavenly words/ the use of latin incantations

Answer 7

presents Faustus as foolish as he is ironic in using religious language to praise his necromancy, the use of latin for his summoning of meph reflects the foolishness and sinful nature of his actions

Question 8

analyse how pliant this meph/ Thou too art ugly to attend upon me/ Go change into an old Franciscan Friar

Answer 8

Faustus is portrayed as viewing himself as being superior to a literal devil- overstepping boundaries. The use of imperatives highlights his hubristic belief in his own power

Question 9

analyse learn thou manly fortitude

Answer 9

Faustus reassures himself that he is too powerful and manly to fear Hell- hubrism

Question 10

analyse abjure these scriptures…fly in hopes of obtaining his soul / I came hither mine own accord

Answer 10

Meph reveals his intentions and is truthful to Faustus still ignores - highlights his foolishness. Meph as machiavellian as he presents himself as trustworthy despite being a literal devil

Question 11

analyse I charge thee to wait upon me while I live/ I am servant to great Lucifer… I cannot follow them without his leave

Answer 11

Faustus’ futile attempts to command mephistopheles is contradicted with him announcing his allegiances to lucifer. Demos his lack of power and control of meph/F and F as foolish

Question 12

analyse This word damnation terrifies him not

Answer 12

Present F’ foolishness as the fact he says this out loud represnets his hubrism as he is insistent of his own power and strength.

Question 13

analyse how come then that thou come out of Hell

Answer 13

Faustus is shown to have noble desires of wanting power for knowledge

Question 14

analyse live in all voluptuosness

Answer 14

Faustus ultimately resolves to base and sexual desires that reveals his shallowness. - quick switch emphasises how OP they are

Question 15

analyse tasted the eternal joys of heaven/ tormented by ten thousand blasts from Hell

Answer 15

Meph is again being truthful and dissuades F from sinning in an attempt to see trustworthy so he is able to more easily deceive him later (machiavellian)

Question 16

AO3 Anti-Catholic agenda

Answer 16

16th Century, England had become a strongly protestant nation especially after the 1588 Spanish Armada + practise of mass was outlawed in Jacobean society