Faustus Quotes Flashcards
1
Q
His waxen wings did mount above his reach
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Prologue - Proleptic comparison foreshadows his later punishment - Story of Icarus
2
Q
base of stock
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Prologue - Divine chain of being, social order, has ascended the chain
3
Q
to Wittenberg
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Prologue- Radical Protestant, protestant town
4
Q
he profits in divinity, The fruitful plot of scholarism grac’d
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Prologue - Has benefitted from his education in religion
Highlights the corruptness of Catholic church
5
Q
Our muse
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Prologue- Divinely inspired, inspirational
6
Q
We must now perform
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Prologue- We are actors in a play
Topos- the world’s a stage
7
Q
Excelling all
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Prologue- Elite scholar
Promethean overreacher
Tradition of Renaissance scholars
