Quotes Flashcards
give a quote presenting Faustus as an Everyman
- ‘Not [be found] marching in the fields of Trasimene [..] Nor sporting in the dalliance of love […] Nor in the pomp of proud audacious deeds’ [Prologue]
- ‘base of stock’ [Prologue]
give a quote showing how knowledge originally sustains Faustus
‘riper years to Wittenberg’ - ‘fruitful plot of scholarism’ - ‘sweet delight disputes’ [Prologue]
give a quote referencing the myth of Icarus
‘his waxen wings did mount above his reach / and melting heavens’ [Prologue]
give a quote showing Faustus’ realisation that knowledge is limited
‘Is to dispute well, logic’s chiefest end?’ / ‘thou hast attain’d that end’ / ‘hast thou not attain’d that end?’ [1.1]
give a quote of Faustus misquoting the bible
‘The reward of sin is death’ [1.1.41] ends with ‘but the gift of god is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord’ and ‘If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves’ [1.1.44-45] ends with ‘If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness’
give a quote showing Faustus’ desire for necromantic knowledge
‘necromantic books are heavenly’ [1.1.52]
give a quote showing Faustus desire for god-like power
‘what a world of profit and delight / Of power, of honour of omnipotence’ [1.1]
‘a sound magician is a mighty god. / Here, Faustus, try thy brains to gain a deity’ [1.1.64-65]
give a quote showing the dire consequences of Faustus’ actions
‘heap God’s heavy wrath upon thy head [1.1.74]’
give a quote from the Evil Angel utilising Faustus’ desire for omnipotence
‘be thou on Earth as Jove is in the sky [1.1.78]’
give a quote showing Faustus materialistic and superficial desires
- ‘How am I glutted with conceit of this!’ [1.1.80]
- ‘fly to India for gold’ / ‘ransack the ocean for orient pearl’ / ‘pleasant fruits and princely delicates’ [1.1.84-7]
- ‘I’ll have them read me strange philosophy’ / ‘I’ll have them wall all Germany with brass’ / ‘I’ll have them fill the public schools with silk’ [1.1.88-92]
- After signing the deal, Faustus asks for the ‘fairest maid in Germany’
what does Faustus sell his soul to Lucifer in exchange for?
for 24 years living in ‘all voluptuousness.’
give a quote showing Faustus is commanding
‘I charge thee to return and change thy shape’ [1.3.24]
give a quote showing Faustus is conceited
Thou are too ugly to attend on me’ [1.3.25]
give a quote showing Faustus is foolish
‘How pliant is this Mephistopheles’ [1.3.30] and ‘such is the force of magic and my spells’ [1.3.32]
give a quote from Mephistopheles exposign Faustus’ foolishness
‘I came now hither of mine own accord’ [1.3.45] and ‘That was the cause, but yet per accidens’ [1.3.47]
give a quote suggesting the catholic church is corrupt
‘Go and return an old Franciscan friar; That holy shape becomes a devil best’ [1.3.26-7]
give a quote showing Faustus hubris
‘Learn thou of Faustus manly fortitude’ [1.3.87]
give a quote describing hell
‘tasted the eternal joys of heaven / […] tormented with ten thousand hells’ [1.3.80-1]
give a quote showing mephistopheles warning faustus
‘O Fasutus, leave these frivolous demands’ [1.3.83]
give a quote from Robin parodying Faustus’ bargain
‘My soul to the devil for a shoulder of mutton, though ‘twere blood raw? […] I had need have it well roasted’ [1.4.12-14]
give a quote showing Robin’s use of sexual language
‘tickle the pretty wenches’ plackets!’ [1.4.72-73] - ‘all she devils has clefts and cloven feet’ [1.4.62-63]
give a quote showing Robin as ignorant
‘guilders’ vs ‘gridirons’ [1.4.36-37] and ‘Baliol and Belcher’ vs ‘Banios and Belchros’ [1.4.51-66]
give a quote showing Wagner is aggressive
‘bind yourself presently unto me / or I’ll turn all the lice about thee into familiars’ [1.4.29-31]
give a quote showing Wagner is commanding
- ‘Sirrah boy come hither’ [1.4.1]
- ‘call me Master Wagner’ [1.4.79]
