Act 3 Scene 1 Flashcards
“There saw we learned Maros golden tomb/thence to Venice, Padua and the rest”
In true spirit of the Renaissance, he has been on a learning spree
-Realising his ambition to gather knowledge of the universe
-It’s been an exhilarating experience and he’s filled with the head sense. There is more out there waiting for him to discover
Maros golden tube refers to the tomb of Virgil
-The poet who wrote the Roman epic the Aeneid
-in Medieval Legends it was believed that Virgil was a magician who was able to cut a tunnel in the rock surrounding his tomb in Naples
“Nay stay my Faustus ; i know you’d see the pope” - m
-he turns F’s thoughts from this intellectual pursuit by tempting him with a chance for some wicked fun
-Specifically the childish torment of the pope
-The ease with which M draws F into the scheme highlights of weakness in F’s character that will undermine all his dreams
-Despite his intellect and high demanded scholarship F has a streak of pettiness and love sensual pleasure that will exploit to keep him bound to Lucifer and doomed to hell
-M is manipulating him and distracting him from the important things the F always dreamed of
“I may parley with the pope”- F
- Fastest uses the marvels of magic powers to pull mean spirited pranks
-The brightness of his noble aspirations is beginning to darken
-The corrupting influence of unriddled power is beginning to show
“ is not all power on earth bestow’d on us? And therefore the we would we cannot eer. Behold, this silver belt, where to is fix’d” - pope Adrian
-The pope is similar to F
-He’s full of pride and he thinks he’s infallible
- Linked to F “ what power can hurt me”
