Food & Gluttony Flashcards
“Of riper years to Wittenberg” / “fruitful plot of scholarism” / “sweet delight disputes”
S.F of Fruit & Gluttony - Traditional knowledge is presented as nourishing and enriching. However, this quickly gets corrupted. Pursuit of knowledge presented as a necessity for the titular character, like food.
Prologue.
“glutted more with learning’s golden gifts he surfeits upon cursed necromancy”
glutted = gauging in necromancy.
Surfeit = Eating too much. Beginning of corruption - unholy thirst for black magic.
Prologue.
“He would give his soul for a shoulder of mutton”
Robin = Stock character of clown/jester.
Faustus makes a deal of “4 & 20 years in all voluptuousness” - In the same way that Robin bargains for food, Faustus bargains for a life dedicated to sensory pleasure.
“_____ _____ in belly cheer”
- Sonnum Bonnum = Greatest Good - Theological language: Marlowe subverts the theological term “G.G.O.G” to ironically mock the friars.
AO3: Anti-Catholic sentiment - Catholic Church as corrupted - Indulgences
“O, this feeds my soul”
Apostrophe - Desire for base pursuits of knowledge no longer, seen through prop of book of necromancy, which replenishes Faustus’ soul.
Emphatic hamartia - overreaching consequently corrupting him and leading to his downfall.
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“Yet methinks if that death were near / He would not banquet and carouse and swill”
Parody of Christ’s Last Supper to highlight Faustus almost comedic foolishness.
Unlike Christ’s Last Supper whereby he dines before he sacrifices himself for mankind’s sins and absolution.
Faustus instead feasts on his own gluttony, punished for his gorging of the superficial.
Irony almost emphatic of a punishment deserved.
