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His waxen wings did mount above his reach

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Prologue

Allusion to myth of Icarus = forebodes his own fate

Symbolises hubris + dangers of overreaching limits of man

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Heavens conspired his overthrow

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Conflict between pre-destination and free will

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Nothing so sweet as magic is to him, And he prefers before his sweetest bliss

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Divine retribution

Brilliance + intelligence manifested in impatience

With human learning = desires to learn more = necromancy

Sweetest bliss = heaven

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Be a physician, Faustus, heal up gold, and be eternalised for some wonders cure

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  • Half rhyme = unsettling = morally unjustifiable
  • Pursuit of financial gain
  • Order of precedence = money > well-being of others
  • Eternalised = desire for immortality / a power only god posses = divine retribution
  • Rejects fundamental values of Christianity = serving others / benevolence
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Could thou make men to live eternally or being dead raise them to life again

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  • Greed for god – like powers
  • expressing deeply sacrilegious thought = Within the Christian belief system, power over life and death belongs to God. Resurrection of the dead is for Christ, and within God’s power at the end of time.
  • unsatisfied with being mortal = subject to the laws of nature and God
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The reward of sin is death

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  • Juxtaposition between accomplished scholar + not comprehending full line = trivial mistake = shows Power of information + ability to be manipulated / warped
  • Desire = supernatural / immortality
  • Detached examination of sin = forebodes future relevance of sin to his life
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Too servile and illiberal for me

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  • Desire to control
  • Order of precedence = rejects logic / medicine / law / theology
  • Paradox = dismissal of ordinary areas of study – e.g logic – dependant upon mastery of logic + argumentation
  • Rejection = hubris = hamartia
  • Study = follows dictates of medieval scholarship = held that learning was based on the authority of the wise rather than on experimentation of ideas = rejects this
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Necromantic books are heavenly

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  • Juxtaposition between magic + religion = tension = divine retribution
  • Desires knowledge of the occult = condemned in Christianity
  • Distorting image of ‘heaven’ – sacrilegious
  • Utilise forbidden knowledge to transgress boundaries
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All things that move between the poles shall be at my command

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  • enjambement
  • my command = equating himself to God = taboo = divine retribution
  • Icarus = transgress beyond realms of human limitations
  • Geocentric model = earth is centre of solar system = implication = control universe
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Good Ang – And heap God’s heavy wrath upon thy head

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  • Subverting ideas of God – depicted as benevolent + forgiving – juxtaposed ‘might wrath’ = condemning hypocritical nature of Christianity = renaissance
  • Good angel = manipulates through fear of consequences
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Bad Ang – Be thou on earth as Jove is in the sky

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  • Jove = supreme God in the Roman mythology pantheon + chief deity of Roman state religion = globally worshipped
  • Powerful
  • Bad angel = manipulates desires
  • Order of precedence = last = evil angel = adhesive memorability = greater influence
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I’ll have them fly to india for gold, Ransack the ocean for oriental pearl…pleasant fruits and delights

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  • Greedy / ambitious / sinful
  • Ransack – negative connotations – theft = thieving power from God = Christian punishment
  • Pearl = symbol of status = desire of fame
  • Delights = luxury = lust = sin
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Ill have them fill the public schools with silk…ill levy soldiers with the coin they bring

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  • Philanthropic
  • Contrasting to previous egocentric desires
  • Conflict / conflation of good + bad in an individual = complexity of human nature
  • Last to be listed = considered of least importance
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2 - Scholar – Got to, Sirrah, leave your jesting and tell us where he is

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  • Wagner mocking academic language of scholars
  • Highlights pretence / class differences / sense of superiority + hierarchy
  • Provides comic relief
  • Poor = blank verse / prose
  • Fancy man = rhyming couplets
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3 Gloomy shadow of the night

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  • Gothic connotations
  • Shadow = appearance vs reality / deception
  • Night = taboo + sacrilegious
  • Forebodes sin
  • Duality between day + night
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3 Fau – Too ugly.. Go and return an old francisian friar, That holy shape becomes a devil best

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  • Humorous = comment on religion / Catholicism to deeply protestant audience
  • Sign of Marlowe’s renaissance individualism
  • Too ugly = shunning of reality symbolised through his demand to avoid viewing horrors of hell = selective in his understanding
  • Lack of acceptance towards true evil = propelling force
  • Juxtaposition between holy and devil
  • Hypocrisy of religion = friars are actually devil / sinful = appearance vs reality
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3 Full of obedience and humility

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  • Exults in the power he has over Mes
  • Arrogance = selective understanding = not aware only obedient to receive soul
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3 Fau – Be it to make the moon drop from her sphere, or the ocean to overwhelm the world

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  • Desires control of the natural elements
  • Ocean = effeminate force
  • Moon = nautical imagery = lost guidance ‘fallen to that damned art
    ’
  • Moon = controls nature + also manipulates / influences human behaviour = lunatic + Luna = desire to be above the laws of nature
  • Overwhelm = sense of power dynamic
  • Symbol in gothic literature
  • Moon = symbolic of virgin Mary = no longer in sphere = rejection of religion
  • Ocean = represents origins of life = Charles Darwin’s = moon + ocean = conflicting views of science + religion
  • Soliloquy = iambic pentameter
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3 Mesh – I am a servant to grater Lucifer

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  • Hierarchy
  • Limitations of god / supernatural / occult
  • Repetition of Lucifer throughout soliloquy = warning of ‘pride’ and ‘insolent’
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Meph – who saw the face of God, and tasted the eternal joys of heaven am not tormented with ten thousand hells…leave these frivolous demands

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  • Peculiar figure = devil = predetermined expectation of pure evil = flickers of philanthropy = attempts to warn
  • Not entirely evil = Marlowe’s subtle way of invalidating religion/ distorting archetypal presentation of devil
  • Parallels between meph and fau = both prideful + rebelled against god
  • Warning from the incarnate of pure evil = amplifies tension
  • Hell = state of mind = independent of God
  • Eternal + tern thousands = quantifying = overwhelming = suffocating
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3 Fau – what is great Mephistopheles so passionate for being deprives of the joys of heaven…say he surrenders up to him his soul So he will spare him 4 and 20 years

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  • Seeks knowledge he can not comprehend = lack of wisdom = hamartia
  • Selective understanding
  • Due to his selective understanding = ignored words of warning = hamartia = exhibits blindness = shunning of reality + lack of acceptance towards true horrors of hell = propels him towards darkness = hamartia
  • Free will vs predestination
  • Distribution of lines = proportion higher to fau = arrogance / more power = harmatia
  • Questioning = powerful
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5 Something soundeth in mine ears, abjure this magic, turn to god again

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  • Flicker of redemption / conservation of path
  • Inner conflict
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5 Good – think of heaven and heavenly delights.
Bad – think of honour and of wealth

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  • Gothic duality / dichotomy
  • Last to speak = order or precedence = heteroglossia = disorientation
  • Adhesive memorability = last to speak
  • Illusion vs free will
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My blood congeals, and I can write no more

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  • Blood = symbolism = renaissance = held essence of oneself
  • Transfer of blood = intimate
  • Congeals = bodily reluctance = opportunity to relent + seek redemption = missed
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5 Fau – consammutum est

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  • Signifies lucifer taking place of God = blasphemy
  • Said to be Christ’s last dying word on cross
  • Arm stabbing = alludes to stigmata or wounds of crucifix of Christ
  • Conflation of religious + blasphemous imagery = duality
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5 Fau – Homo Fuge..If unto God he’ll throw me down to hell

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  • Engraving = opportunity to repent
  • Now that he is damned sinner = doesn’t believe God will take him back
  • Classic torment if the sinner = who, with the same sort of aggrandisement of himself that led gum to sign it in the first place, believes that his sin is so uniquely awful = repentance = impossible
  • Loses faith in gods infinite love = due to selective understanding
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5 Meph = Where we are tortured and remain for ever..Hell hath no limits

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  • Does not heed the warning of devil.
  • Demonstrates painful consequences of unrepentant sinning = blind to this
  • Craves knowledge on astronomy + botany = mistakes Knowledge for wisdom
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5 Fau = I think hells a fable… these are mere old wives tales..what sleeping, eating, walking, and disputing!

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  • Selective understanding
  • Faustus = secular renaissance man = disdainful of traditions religion = nonbeliever = despite talking to a devil
  • Interprets hell as a continuation of earth existence + fails to understand true pain.
  • Words of rationalism / atheism
  • Peculiar ideologues = summoning devil
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5 Meph – marriage is but a ceremonial toy

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  • Marriage to religious = subverts this by conjuring prostitute
  • Already Meph in control = power dynamic = rejecting / distorting Fau demands
  • Limits of this demonic gift
  • Toy = puerile / temporary
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5 mephy = thunder, whirlwinds, storm and lightning

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  • Zeus = God of destruction = religious imagery conflated with blasphemous occurrences
  • Conflation = heightens sense of danger + taboo around Fau action = emphasises gravity of sin
  • Uses religious imagery = society = was undergoing significant religious upheaval = Protestant reformation challenging Catholic Church = exploring
  • Add depths to fau character = not inherently evil = internal conflict = nuanced portrayal of a construct that strays away from God + pays price of his transgressions
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6 Rob = I mean to search some circles for my own use…raise a spirit in his mistress

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  • Low comedy
  • Subverts fau heavy / perilous situation into a satirical light.
  • Sexual innuendo
  • Fau behaviour contaminates lower class
    .
  • Lower class = speak in prose
  • Raise a spirit = erection
  • Utilising conjuring book to make women dance naked = petty / lustful = sinful
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Fau – I will renounce this magic + repent

Meph – it is not half so fair as thou or any man that breathes in earth

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  • Interrupted by devil = predestination
  • Denounces heaven.
  • Inferior to man = blasphemy
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Good – God will pity thee
Bad – got cannot pity thee

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  • Contradictory
  • Heteroglossia = disorientation
  • Stark dichotomy
  • Bad angel = subverts gods all forgiving nature = using fear to manipulate
  • Selective understanding
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Fau – I cannot repent – scarce can I name salvation, faith, or heaven

my hearts so hardened I cannot repent

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  • Selective understanding = Damned
  • Does not comprehend nature of Christian redemption = gives into devil’s pageantry of sin
  • Calvinist idea = predestination = God hardened hearts of reprobate
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Fau – Oh Christ, my saviour my saviour..enter lucifer

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  • Repent = disrupted
  • Predestination
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that sight will be as pleasant to me as paradise was to Adam

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  • Distorted religious imagery
  • Adam = sinful = foreboding
  • Conflation of two realms
  • Distracted from previous repent
  • Parody of sins = symbolise foolish neglect of danger of sin = relishes in their presence = fails to make connection between his own + them = fatal = selective understanding
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C2 - mount Olympus + descent

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• Mount Olympus = abode of Gods in Greek mythology = Faustus reaching summit suggest nobility + glory due to man
• Descent = studying astronomy to cosmography – earth = foreboding

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C2 - Court

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associated with royalty = subverts predetermined ideas of pope = selfish

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Fau - Airy mountain top…walls of flint…deep-entrenched lakes

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  • Fau = distracted by beauty of Rome = not inherently evil = flickers of humanity = in awe = almost humbled = contrasts arrogance = reminder = pursuit of knowledge
  • Privileged experience to 1950’s audience = aerial tour
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Fau – come on…what shall we do?

Mephy – Nay, stay, my fau, I know you’d like to see the pope

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  • Coerced into evil = not innately immoral = in awe of landscape
  • Mephy = lacking in what a fau wants
  • Fau = dependant relationship = passive = manipulation = colloquial = close rs
  • Question mark = looks up to mephy
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Cardinals = My lord it may be some ghosts

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  • Fau = playing meaningless pranks = ridiculing power of pope = defenceless
  • Critique at catholic beliefs
  • Ghost existed in catholic teachings = thought to be spirits of purgatory = protestant rejects such teachings = devils in disguise
  • Carnivalesque humour
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8
Fau – bell book and candle…candle, book and bell

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  • Ridiculing catholic authority
  • Ring bell / close book / blow out candle = ritual = mocking ritual / by reversing
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8

Friar – song

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  • Parody of excommunication + parody of catholic rituals = sentence to hell = ironic

– Fau already damned = ridiculing power of pope

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8 We will dispose the Emperor for that deed and curse the people that submit to him

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• We – royal plural = adapting language of royalty = tension between state + church

• Emperor – Divine right of kings – pope = sinning? = pregenocide

• Curse = cruel presentation – parallels = lucifer rebelled against God

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Like a steeple overpeers the church

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• Hierarchy = villainising emperor

• State vs church tension

• Conflation of religious imagery with corruption / tension / battle

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Peters heirs should tread of emperors, treading the lions and the dragons down

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• Peters heirs = pope

• Lions = st George = representation of England

• Dragons = royal French family coat of arms

• Associates morality play = Britain

• Treading + should = imperatives

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Scene 9

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Though the subjects of these pranks differ in social rank, the pranks themselves are equally mean- spirited and petty in nature

  • F instincts same as low class
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10

  • ‘looks like a conjuror’
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Knight

o Cheap magician
o Juxtaposes previous presentations of grandness in chorus

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10

Alexander

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o Shows disconnect
o grandness of his original ambition to become a king (much like Alexander the Great) and his behaviour here as a mere court entertainer.

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10

  • Wife not only give thee horns but makes thee wear them
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o Petty revenge – character has deteriorated as a respectable scholar
o Insults horse guys masculinity
- Mocks pope / knight / horse-trader = gradual degradation even in pranks

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10

  • What art thou Faustus , but a man condemned to die
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o Anagnorisis – recognition of some fundamental truth about human condition

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10

Actaeon’s

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  • Actaeon’s death is effectuated by his desires which violate sacred rules related to the higher authorities
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11

  • Alas madam, that is nothing
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  • Brings grapes – small menial task
  • Reduced to serving – magic has not empowered him
    o Bored by magic – human nature – can never be truly fulfilled
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12

o Just requests of those that wish him well

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irony – not true friends – don’t urge to repent – parasitic relationship

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12

  • His faith is great, I cannot touch his soul
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power / protestant view

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12

  • Gives a dagger
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reminiscent of psychomachia / suicide = sin / moral paradox + after ‘I do repent’ = interrupts repent

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12

  • Make me immortal with a kiss
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o Self-destruction
o moment of intense passion that threatens to distract him from his rational pursuits and lead him astray

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12

  • I will be Paris
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Paris loses the trojan war = foreboding

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12

  • Brighter art thou then flaming Jupiter
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o Jupiter = serves to reinforce the idea that Helen is not just a mortal woman, but a figure of almost divine beauty and allure – seductive power
o Jupiter – power over natural elements
o Jupiter - Faustus is aligning himself with a pagan god who stands in opposition to God, and is thus defying the Christian order of the universe

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13

now hast thou but one hour to live

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  • Panic / desperation – dynamic speech / monosyllabic
  • echoes striking of clock
  • Enjambement – futile plea for time
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  • Ill leap up to my God + Ill burn my books
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final attempt to seek redemption and salvation.

clash between Renaissance values and medieval values

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