Act 3 Scene 2 Flashcards
“ i thank you sir snatch it” f
“Nay then take that!” *faustus hits him a box of the ear” -f
beat the friars and fling fireworks among them SD
“Cursed be he that stole his holiness meat from thy table” - friar
-they were attack on the pope is overtly anti-catholic?
-Which would have delighted as in protestant England during the renaissance
-The pope is humiliated by fs torments which includes grabbing his food and drink and striking him
-The fryers are portrayed as chanting nonsense that does nothing to stop F’s antics
“ I think it be some ghost crept out of purgatory”
* the Pope crosseth himself*
-The belief specific to Catholicism are mocked
-These include the existence of purgatory from which a soul may escape
- in Catholicism purgatory is a place or a state of being in which souls are made to purge through suffering before going to heaven
-Participants rejects the idea of purgatory so the archbishops explanation that there must be a runaway ghost from purgatory in the room would’ve been amusing to them
-they also reject the sign of the cross such as the pope makes to evoke God’s protection from the evil pestering him
-This practice involves tracing across from the forehead to chest and shoulder to shoulder
-Protestants at the time view the practice as superstitious
“Bell,brook and candle” - f
-The ritual in which f refers to a Bell book and candle is the catholic ritual of excommunication
-In which a person may be excluded permanently
-In this ceremony a death bell is wrong surrounding the death of the persons soul
-Then the holy Bible is shot cutting the person off from the world of God
-lastly a candle is sniffed out vanishing the person’s soul to external darkness
-it mocks Catholicism
