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Faustus Flashcards

1
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“What art thou Faustus….

A

….but a man compared to die?”

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What does Mephistopheles say to Faustus implying manipulation?

Trickery

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“It was me that lead your eye”

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What does Faustus reference the seven deadly sins as?

Trickery

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“golden gifts”

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What is Faustus’s very last words, in his final soliloquy, before he gets taken by Mephistopheles?
What is the emphasis of this?(2)

Sympathy

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‘I’ll burn my books’.
simplistic phrase
“Books” represent both the highest and lowest points in Faustus’ life

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What does Faustus state going against religion?

What is it and whats its effect?

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“Hell is a fable”
emphatic blasphemy phrase
modernist opinion on the bible and heaven and hell

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What does Faustus say to reflect his courage?

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“So now the blood begins to clear again:”

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What does Mephistopheles say that the audience could conceive as being nice?

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“And i will be thy slave and wait”

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What does Faustus say reflecting his knowledge?
What tale and myth is it?
How is it parallel?

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“His waxen wings”

cautionary tale of the icarus myth
parallel to Faustus and icarus as they are tring to clim the chain of being by using hubristic language

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What does faustus say that reflects his arrogance?

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“Settle thy studies, Faustus”

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10
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What quote suggests Faustus’s convoluted logic?

What type of phrase is it?

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“Necromantic books are heavenly”

Oxymoronic phrase

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What does Faustus say referencing satan in garden of eden?

Go forward Faustus…

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…in that famous art

Fricative phrase, with the soft sibilance.

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What does the phrase, Go forward Faustus in that famous art, suggest?

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Serpentine, evokes imagery of snake in Adam and Eve.

And parallels satan with faustus

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13
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What does the pope say to bruno?

What does it suggest?

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“Cast down our footstool!”
Imperative
contradicts expectations of the Pope as kind and humble

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14
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Who in Faustus is Faustus’s foils?

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Dick and Robin

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What does the good/bad angel say to Faustus?

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“Go forward Faustus in that famous art”

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16
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What does Mephistopheles say about hell?

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“Why this is hell nor am I out of it”

17
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Mephistopheles : “O Faustus leave …

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… these frivolous demands”

18
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What does Faustus say that is mocking of hell?
Whats its function?(3)

Mocking, non sympathetic

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“Bell, book, and candle; candle, book, and bell”
doesn’t fit iambic pentameter
there is one too many syllables.
mocking tone ironic as Faustus later is banished to hell.

19
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What does (foil to Faustus) Wagner say about Faustus to make the audience sympathise with Faustus?

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He would give his soul for a shoulder of mutton
he would give up his soul for something lower in the great chain of being.
mocking Faustus, making the audience sympathise with him

20
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CONTEXT:

How does the quotation “Necromantic books are heavenly” effect the Jacobean audience

A

Theatre in this era was highly censored

21
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CONTEXT:
What did the globe production of Faustus do? (2)

Spectacle

A

Use same actors to play lucifer and the pope.

Highlights that the play could have anti catholic views

22
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What hubristic nature does Faustus use in the dragon scene?

Spectacle

A

“From pole to pole these dragons swiftly glide”

23
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What is Faustus?

A

A three dimensional promethean over reacher

24
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CRITIC
What does Deats say about Faustus causing us to feel sympathy for him?

What quote does it link to?

A

“Harrowing demi mont”

“See his limbs torn asunder”
“Fearful shrieks and cries”

25
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CRITIC

What does Suntayane say that the play Faustus is?

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“Satanic tragedy”

26
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CRITIC

What would the female audience feel about Faustus?

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Female audience would identify with faustus because of interrogation of authority

27
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CRITIC

What does Max Bluestone say about the end of the play?

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“Faustus’s end is ambiguous”

28
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CRITIC

What did John Dee say about Faustus?

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“a seeker of knowledge to benefit mankind”

29
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CRITIC
What did Sinfield say about faustus?
“the play ironically…

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…condemns the God who sends him there”

30
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CONTEXT

Is Faustus a morality play and why?

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Yes because he is an “everyman”

31
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What does Faustus say near the end?

‘What art thou, Faustus…

A

…but a man condemn’d to die?”

32
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CONTEXT

What is Marlowe?

A

Atheist

33
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CONTEXT

What would contemporary audiences agree with?

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The evil presentation of the pope

34
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How is spectacle performed in Faustus?(4)

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“A dragon briefly appears”
“Hot Whores”
“Fireworks appear”
The mouth of hell visible on stage

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