Dr Faustus quotes Flashcards
Act 1 Scene 1: “Be a physician Faustus…
…Heap up gold, and be eternised for some wondrous cure”- Faustus monologue
Act 1 Scene 1: “fly to India for gold… Fill the public…
…schools with silk… chase the Prince of Parma from our land”
Faustus
-prince of parma was a spanish general closely involved in plans to invade England in the 1580’s
Prologue: “At riper years to…
…Wittenberg he went”- chorus]
bithplace of protestantism
Prologue: three phrases from the semantic field of religious terminology
‘heavenly verse’
‘patient judgement’
‘heavenly matters of theology’
‘devilish
Prologue: “Not marching in the fields…
…of Trasimere…nor sporting in the dalliance of love’
Act 1 Scene 1: “Where’s thy master?”- fist scholar, what was Wagner’s response?
“God in heaven knows”- Wagner
“Yes, I know but that follows not”
Prologue: “his waxen wings did…
…mount above his reach, and melting, heavens conspired his overthrow”- Chorus
-icarus reference related to ego against god
-hubris
Prologue: “falling to…
…devilish exercise”- Chorus
Act 1 Scene 1: “These metaphysics of magicians…
…and nectromantic books are heavenly”- Faustus
Act 1 Scene 1: “gaze not on it, lest…
…it tempt thy soul and heap god’s heavy wrath upon thy head”- Good Angel to Faustus
Act 1 Scene 1: “be thou on earth a Jove…
…is in the sky, Lord and commander of these elements”- Bad Angel
-Jove= the roman god Jupiter so Faustus is not ignoring the christian god’s existence he just believes he can become equal or surpass it
Act 1 Scene 1: “Are not thy bills…
…hung up as monuments(?)”- Faustus
Act 1 Scene 1: “Yet art thou still but Faustus, and a man…
…Could’st thou make men to live eternally, Or, being dead, raise them to life again, then thou profession were to be asteemed”- Faustus
Act 1 Scene 3: “Faustus, begin thine incantations, And…
…try if devils will obey thy hest”- Faustus
-thinks the devils will obey him and he will be master
Act 1 Scene 3: “Thou art…
…too ugly to attend to me”- Faustus to Mephistopheles
-Faustus later rides a dragon when he calls meph’s dragon form ugly here
Act 1 Scene 3: “Go and return an old Franciscan friar…
…; That holy shape becomes a devil best.”- Faustus to Mephistopheles
Act 1 Scene 3: “I am a servant to…
…the great Lucifer and may not follow thee without his leave.”- Mephistopheles
Act 1 Scene 3: “abjure all godliness and…
…pray devoutly to the prince of hell”- Meph to Faustus
-foreshadowing to how the old man says that as long as faustus still believes in god then the devil can’t take him to hell/harm him
Act 1 scene 3: “by aspiring pride and insolence…
…, for which God threw him from the face of heaven.”- Mephistopheles to Faustus about the devil
-mirrors the icarus analogy from the prologue
Act 1 Scene 3: “Why, this is…
…hell, nor am I out of it.”- Mephistopheles to Faustus
Act 2 Scene 1: “something soundeth in mine ear:…
…‘abjure this magic, turn to God again”- Faustus monologue
Act 2 Scene 1: “The god thou serv’st…
…is thine own appetite”- Faustus monologue
The Good Angel tells Faustus to think on ‘heaven and heavenly things’ what does the Bad Angel tell Faustus to think on
‘honour and wealth’, all the things Faustus covets
Act 2 Scene 1: “My blood congeals…
and I can write no more.”
“Is it unwilling I should write this bill.”- Faustus
Act 2 Scene 1: “Is not…
…thy soul thine own?”- Faustus
Act 2 Scene 3: “If heaven was made…
…for man, ‘twas made for me”- Faustus
Act 2 Scene 3: “Tell me what made the world”- Faustus
“I will not.”- Mephistopheles
Act 3 Scene 1: “in eight days…
…did bring him home again”
Act 3 Scene 1: “to me and peter…
…thou shalt grovelling lie and crouch before the papal dignity.”- Pope Adrian to Pope Bruno
Act 3 Scene 1: “a flourish…
…as he ascends”- stage direction for Pope Adrian using Pope Bruno as a stepping stool
Act 3 Scene 1: “as the gods…
…creep on with feet of wool”- Pope Adrian
shows him taking advantage of silent, unseen gods to dictate his own will of ‘sleeping vengeance’
Act 3 Scene 1: “I was elected…
…by the Emperor”- Pope Bruno
Act 3 Scene 1: “He grows too proud…
…in his authority”- Pope Adrian to Pope Bruno
mimics Faustus’ hubris
Act 4 Scene 1: “Speak softly, sir, lest…
…the devil hear you”- Martino to Benvolio about Faustus
Benvolio’s name means benevolent
shows hypocracy of church for claiming to be of benevolent cause but acting violently to those that do not follow their ideals
Act 4 scene 1: “I’ll be Actaeon and turn…
…myself to a stag”- Benvolio
Act 4 Scene 2: “Mount aloft with them…
…as high as heaven; Thence pitch them headlong to the lowest hell.”- Faustus to the devils about Benvolio and his soldiers
Act 4 Scene 2: “laden with…
…rich reward”- Benvolio
Act 5 Scene 1: “thou hast offended…
…like a man, do not persevere like a devil.”- the old man to Faustus
Act 5 Scene 1: “gentle son, i…
…speak it not in wrath or in envy of thee, but in tender love”- Old man
Act 5 Scene 1: “His faith is great. I…
…cannot touch his soul.”- Mephistopheles about the old man
lucifer speaks in iambic pentameter and is said to be above rather than below in the stage directions beginning Act 5 Scene 2
Lucifer’s placement mimics a tool used in other Jacobean plays like with Prospero in ‘The Tempest’ where he is placed above the stage to show his orchestration over the scene below
Act 5 Scene 2: “wretched Faustus”, “fond worldling”
fond means foolish or liked, discuss which could be meant or both
