AO5 Flashcards

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Nicholl - “serves an essentially

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reactionary purpose”

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Hazlitt - “Faustus was not in fact acting to fulfil his own selfish desires but as…

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a martyr to collect knowledge for all of us”

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Lewes - “to have saved him would have been to…

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violate the legend”

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Taine - ‘Faustus is the living, struggling, natural personal man, not the…

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philosophic type which Goethe has created, but a primitive and genuine man’

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Wilhelm - ‘Marlowe’s Faustus is anything but…

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A hero”

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Symonds - “A man in revolt against the

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Eternal laws of his own nature and the world’

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Dawkins - ‘the story of a Renaissance man who had to pay…

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the medieval price for being one’

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Billington - ‘Jeffrey Skilling: a Marlovian

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Over reacher’

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Billington - ‘difficult to feel…

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sympathy for such a man’

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10
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Berry - ‘capitalism exposed

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as con-trick and illusion’

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Billington - ‘global complicity in

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money worship’

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Humanist Criticism

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Faustus becomes a mythical figure, an archetype of the human desire to cross the boundaries that appear to set the limits of human capacity

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Psychological Criticism

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Masculine agression and narcissism can be seen in both

Plays

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