Faustus Flashcards
“What art thou Faustus….
….but a man compared to die?”
What does Mephistopheles say to Faustus implying manipulation?
Trickery
“It was me that lead your eye”
What does Faustus reference the seven deadly sins as?
Trickery
“golden gifts”
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
‘I’ll burn my books’.
simplistic phrase
“Books” represent both the highest and lowest points in Faustus’ life
What does Faustus state going against religion?
What is it and whats its effect?
“Hell is a fable”
emphatic blasphemy phrase
modernist opinion on the bible and heaven and hell
What does Faustus say to reflect his courage?
“So now the blood begins to clear again:”
What does Mephistopheles say that the audience could conceive as being nice?
“And i will be thy slave and wait”
What does Faustus say reflecting his knowledge?
What tale and myth is it?
How is it parallel?
“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
What does faustus say that reflects his arrogance?
“Settle thy studies, Faustus”
What quote suggests Faustus’s convoluted logic?
What type of phrase is it?
“Necromantic books are heavenly”
Oxymoronic phrase
What does Faustus say referencing satan in garden of eden?
Go forward Faustus…
…in that famous art
Fricative phrase, with the soft sibilance.
What does the phrase, Go forward Faustus in that famous art, suggest?
Serpentine, evokes imagery of snake in Adam and Eve.
And parallels satan with faustus
What does the pope say to bruno?
What does it suggest?
“Cast down our footstool!”
Imperative
contradicts expectations of the Pope as kind and humble
Who in Faustus is Faustus’s foils?
Dick and Robin
What does the good/bad angel say to Faustus?
“Go forward Faustus in that famous art”
What does Mephistopheles say about hell?
“Why this is hell nor am I out of it”
Mephistopheles : “O Faustus leave …
… these frivolous demands”
What does Faustus say that is mocking of hell?
Whats its function?(3)
Mocking, non sympathetic
“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.
What does (foil to Faustus) Wagner say about Faustus to make the audience sympathise with Faustus?
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
CONTEXT:
How does the quotation “Necromantic books are heavenly” effect the Jacobean audience
Theatre in this era was highly censored
CONTEXT:
What did the globe production of Faustus do? (2)
Spectacle
Use same actors to play lucifer and the pope.
Highlights that the play could have anti catholic views
What hubristic nature does Faustus use in the dragon scene?
Spectacle
“From pole to pole these dragons swiftly glide”
What is Faustus?
A three dimensional promethean over reacher
CRITIC
What does Deats say about Faustus causing us to feel sympathy for him?
What quote does it link to?
“Harrowing demi mont”
“See his limbs torn asunder”
“Fearful shrieks and cries”
CRITIC
What does Suntayane say that the play Faustus is?
“Satanic tragedy”
CRITIC
What would the female audience feel about Faustus?
Female audience would identify with faustus because of interrogation of authority
CRITIC
What does Max Bluestone say about the end of the play?
“Faustus’s end is ambiguous”
CRITIC
What did John Dee say about Faustus?
“a seeker of knowledge to benefit mankind”
CRITIC
What did Sinfield say about faustus?
“the play ironically…
…condemns the God who sends him there”
CONTEXT
Is Faustus a morality play and why?
Yes because he is an “everyman”
What does Faustus say near the end?
‘What art thou, Faustus…
…but a man condemn’d to die?”
CONTEXT
What is Marlowe?
Atheist
CONTEXT
What would contemporary audiences agree with?
The evil presentation of the pope
How is spectacle performed in Faustus?(4)
“A dragon briefly appears”
“Hot Whores”
“Fireworks appear”
The mouth of hell visible on stage
