Dr Faustus quotes

Question 1

Act 1 Scene 1: “Be a physician Faustus…

Answer 1

…Heap up gold, and be eternised for some wondrous cure”- Faustus monologue

Question 2

Act 1 Scene 1: “fly to India for gold… Fill the public…

Answer 2

…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

Question 3

Prologue: “At riper years to…

Answer 3

…Wittenberg he went”- chorus]
bithplace of protestantism

Question 4

Prologue: three phrases from the semantic field of religious terminology

Answer 4

‘heavenly verse’
‘patient judgement’
‘heavenly matters of theology’
‘devilish

Question 5

Prologue: “Not marching in the fields…

Answer 5

…of Trasimere…nor sporting in the dalliance of love’

Question 6

Act 1 Scene 1: “Where’s thy master?”- fist scholar, what was Wagner’s response?

Answer 6

“God in heaven knows”- Wagner
“Yes, I know but that follows not”

Question 7

Prologue: “his waxen wings did…

Answer 7

…mount above his reach, and melting, heavens conspired his overthrow”- Chorus
-icarus reference related to ego against god
-hubris

Question 8

Prologue: “falling to…

Answer 8

…devilish exercise”- Chorus

Question 9

Act 1 Scene 1: “These metaphysics of magicians…

Answer 9

…and nectromantic books are heavenly”- Faustus

Question 10

Act 1 Scene 1: “gaze not on it, lest…

Answer 10

…it tempt thy soul and heap god’s heavy wrath upon thy head”- Good Angel to Faustus

Question 11

Act 1 Scene 1: “be thou on earth a Jove…

Answer 11

…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

Question 12

Act 1 Scene 1: “Are not thy bills…

Answer 12

…hung up as monuments(?)”- Faustus

Question 13

Act 1 Scene 1: “Yet art thou still but Faustus, and a man…

Answer 13

…Could’st thou make men to live eternally, Or, being dead, raise them to life again, then thou profession were to be asteemed”- Faustus

Question 14

Act 1 Scene 3: “Faustus, begin thine incantations, And…

Answer 14

…try if devils will obey thy hest”- Faustus

-thinks the devils will obey him and he will be master

Question 15

Act 1 Scene 3: “Thou art…

Answer 15

…too ugly to attend to me”- Faustus to Mephistopheles

-Faustus later rides a dragon when he calls meph’s dragon form ugly here

Question 16

Act 1 Scene 3: “Go and return an old Franciscan friar…

Answer 16

…; That holy shape becomes a devil best.”- Faustus to Mephistopheles

Question 17

Act 1 Scene 3: “I am a servant to…

Answer 17

…the great Lucifer and may not follow thee without his leave.”- Mephistopheles

Question 18

Act 1 Scene 3: “abjure all godliness and…

Answer 18

…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

Question 19

Act 1 scene 3: “by aspiring pride and insolence…

Answer 19

…, for which God threw him from the face of heaven.”- Mephistopheles to Faustus about the devil

-mirrors the icarus analogy from the prologue

Question 20

Act 1 Scene 3: “Why, this is…

Answer 20

…hell, nor am I out of it.”- Mephistopheles to Faustus

Question 21

Act 2 Scene 1: “something soundeth in mine ear:…

Answer 21

…‘abjure this magic, turn to God again”- Faustus monologue

Question 22

Act 2 Scene 1: “The god thou serv’st…

Answer 22

…is thine own appetite”- Faustus monologue

Question 23

The Good Angel tells Faustus to think on ‘heaven and heavenly things’ what does the Bad Angel tell Faustus to think on

Answer 23

‘honour and wealth’, all the things Faustus covets

Question 24

Act 2 Scene 1: “My blood congeals…

Answer 24

and I can write no more.”
“Is it unwilling I should write this bill.”- Faustus

Question 25

Act 2 Scene 1: "Is not...

Answer 25

...thy soul thine own?"- Faustus

Question 26

Act 2 Scene 3: "If heaven was made...

Answer 26

...for man, 'twas made for me"- Faustus

Question 27

Act 2 Scene 3: "Tell me what made the world"- Faustus

Answer 27

"I will not."- Mephistopheles

Question 28

Act 3 Scene 1: "in eight days...

Answer 28

...did bring him home again"

Question 29

Act 3 Scene 1: "to me and peter...

Answer 29

...thou shalt grovelling lie and crouch before the papal dignity."- Pope Adrian to Pope Bruno

Question 30

Act 3 Scene 1: "a flourish...

Answer 30

...as he ascends"- stage direction for Pope Adrian using Pope Bruno as a stepping stool

Question 31

Act 3 Scene 1: "as the gods...

Answer 31

...creep on with feet of wool"- Pope Adrian shows him taking advantage of silent, unseen gods to dictate his own will of 'sleeping vengeance'

Question 32

Act 3 Scene 1: "I was elected...

Answer 32

...by the Emperor"- Pope Bruno

Question 33

Act 3 Scene 1: "He grows too proud...

Answer 33

...in his authority"- Pope Adrian to Pope Bruno mimics Faustus' hubris

Question 34

Act 4 Scene 1: "Speak softly, sir, lest...

Answer 34

...the devil hear you"- Martino to Benvolio about Faustus

Question 35

Benvolio's name means benevolent

Answer 35

shows hypocracy of church for claiming to be of benevolent cause but acting violently to those that do not follow their ideals

Question 36

Act 4 scene 1: "I'll be Actaeon and turn...

Answer 36

...myself to a stag"- Benvolio

Question 37

Act 4 Scene 2: "Mount aloft with them...

Answer 37

...as high as heaven; Thence pitch them headlong to the lowest hell."- Faustus to the devils about Benvolio and his soldiers

Question 37

Act 4 Scene 2: "laden with...

Answer 37

...rich reward"- Benvolio

Question 38

Act 5 Scene 1: "thou hast offended...

Answer 38

...like a man, do not persevere like a devil."- the old man to Faustus

Question 39

Act 5 Scene 1: "gentle son, i...

Answer 39

...speak it not in wrath or in envy of thee, but in tender love"- Old man

Question 40

Act 5 Scene 1: "His faith is great. I...

Answer 40

...cannot touch his soul."- Mephistopheles about the old man

Question 41

lucifer speaks in iambic pentameter and is said to be above rather than below in the stage directions beginning Act 5 Scene 2

Answer 41

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

Question 42

Act 5 Scene 2: "wretched Faustus", "fond worldling"

Answer 42

fond means foolish or liked, discuss which could be meant or both