Scenes 12 & 13 Flashcards
‘Tears falling from repentant heaviness’
Drop from sense of entitlement and godliness back to earth
‘Thy saviour sweet,/ whose blood alone must wash away thy guilt’
Return to order from ‘necromantic books are heavenly’ restore of structure and discipline from excessive sin
‘Call for mercy and avoid despair’
Allows time to escalate and highlights Fs responsibility to save himself
‘My sweet friend’
Repeated epithet allows for building sense of confusion around appearance and reality and of Fs morality. Falseness echoes mephastophilis
Return to ‘sweet mephastophilis’, loyal to him ‘torment, sweet friend, that base and crooked age’ ‘our hell’
‘To glut the longing of my heart’s desire’
romanticising of sexual urges parallels fascination with necromancy in order to gain power rather than knowledge
‘Was this the face that launched a thousand ships’
Highlights shallowness to Fs achievements as Greek beauty is a relative triumph and unfulfilling pretence of necromancy
Visual manifestation of love for magic which should be love for soul
‘Her lips suck forth my soul, see where it flies’
Highlights self delusion and ironic as sins will cause his descent into hell
‘Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars’
Romantic language and hyperbole highlights self delusion
Contrasts with the stars and sky of heaven and that this brief fulfilment is nothing compared to metaphysical bliss
‘My faith, vile hell, shall triumph over thee!’
Noble and dignified in contrast to F as his belief overcomes torment
‘Now I die eternally’
Realisation of fate and terrifying implications
‘God’s mercies are infinite’
‘The serpent that tempted Eve may be saved, but not Faustus’
Melodramatic as he thinks himself more treacherous and diabolical than the devil
Faustus echoes evil devil highlighting the sin belongs to him
‘Must remain in hell forever- hell, ah, hell for ever!’
Mental decline heightens terror and debasing of Faustus as he becomes a new identity returning to base of stock
Prose-> fall from grace in contrast to poetry
‘Gush forth my blood instead of tears’
Contrasts with old man ‘drop blood, and mingle it with tears’ perhaps suggests it is too late for him to atone for his sins as he has become sub human and further isolated from humanity ‘they hold them, they hold them!’
Sin ‘for vain pleasure’
Contrasts with ‘mere trifles of men’s souls, demonstrating his foolishness
‘I’ll leap up to my God! Who pulls me down’
Agony and despair
