Act V Flashcards
act 5, scene 1
old man tries to encourage Faustus to repent, which he rejects. Faustus takes Helen of Troy as his paramour
what is the purpose of the old man in 5,1?
final chance for repentance and salvation
‘break heart, drop ______’ 5,1?
blood
‘whose ______ alone must wash away thy guilt’ 5,1
blood
‘________ and die’ 5,1
despair
‘I see an _____ hovers o’er thy head’ 5,1
angel
‘ill in piecemeal tear thy _____’ 5,1
flesh
‘and with my ____ again, I will confirm my former vow to Lucifer’ 51,
blood
‘his faith is great. I _______ touch his soul’ 5,1
cannot
‘her lips suck forth my ____’ 5,1
soul
‘as in this ______ God shall try my faith’ 5,1
furnace
act 5 scene 2 summary
Faustus final hour has come.
quotes to show devils are physically preventing Faustus from repenting 5,2
- ‘I would weep but the devils draw in my tears’
- ‘he stays my tongue’
- ‘the devil threatened to tear me to pieces if I named God’
‘make _________ day’ 5,2
perpetual
‘stand still, you ever moving _____ of heaven’ 5,2
spheres
‘mountains and hills, come and ____ on me’ 5,2
fall
‘hide me from the heavy ______ of god’ 5,2
wrath
what other scene does 5,2 mirror and how?
- Faustus in alone in his study
- speaking in soliloquy
what is the significance of the shortening length between the clock striking 11, 11;30, and 12?
highlights how Faustus’ fate is inescapable and how he gets more and more desperate to prevent it.
‘curse be the parents that ________ me’ 5,2
engendered
‘curse ______’ 5,2
curse Lucifer
‘that hath ________ thee of the joys of heaven’ 5,2
deprived
‘my god look not so ______ on me’ 5,2
fierce
what is the last line of the play?
‘ill burn my books. ah mephistopheles!’
