Marlowe deviates significantly by having his hero not to “burn his books” This was done so the masses could easily learn the basics of christianity through the dramatic spoken words. Personification was used in vices, stories of temptation, the devil, Virtues, good angel and was made accessible to those who could not read it themselves. The supernatural pervades Doctor Faustus, appearing everywhere in the story. Morality plays played a very important part at that time and were very successful. They are a type of allegory in which the protagonist is met by the personification of various moral attributes, trying to prompt him to choose a godly life over the life of an evil. The play is in blank verse. Morality plays show the difference between good and evil. The hero represents the Mankind.
The theme of the morality play is : Man begins in innocence after that he falls into temptation, man repents and he is either saved or killed. The main struggle of man against the seven deadly sins has been personified into real characters. Morality plays helped the audienceto understand the greater concepts of sin and