Doctor Faustus is the main character of this play. A very smart man who looks like have reached the limits of natural knowledge. Doctor Faustus is a scholar of the early sixteenth century in the city of Wittenberg, Germany.
Thinking that study of philosophy, medicine, law and theology is a waste of time, Doctor Faustus wants to challenge himself with something more than just these kinds of things. He decides to study magic, because he thinks that from magic he will have all kinds of goodies, like power, wealth and will get answers for things that he has doubts. So he invites his friends Valdes and Cornelius to help him in learning trick about magic. After listening his friends’ advice about magic, Dr. Faustus meets the devil Mephistopheles. …show more content…
Later after he comes back to Germany he continues to make some other tricks by conjuring up Alexander the Great, Helen of Troy etc. With other words all of this trick are unimportant comparing to value of his contract with the devil where he has sold his soul to devil.
Before Dr. Faustus signed his contract with devil his intentions were ambitious, his intentions were that with the power and knowledge that he will get from the devil he will attempt to make world the better place for all, but after he signs his contract with the devil he just does some unimportant tricks to please emperor or even the …show more content…
Mephistopheles for the first time in the play appears after Doctor Faustus’s request, and he tells Doctor Faustus that he can be his servant only if Lucifer, the commander of the devils, agrees about it. The second time that Mephistopheles appears in the play is when he brings words that Lucifer has agreed about Doctor Faustus’s proposal if he signs the contract where he says that he will sell his soul to devil if Mephistopheles will serve to him for twenty-four years. According to Lucifer this contract should be signed by Doctor Faustus blood. After contract is signed Mephistopheles teaches Doctor Faustus about nature of hell and the devil, and about
Thinking that study of philosophy, medicine, law and theology is a waste of time, Doctor Faustus wants to challenge himself with something more than just these kinds of things. He decides to study magic, because he thinks that from magic he will have all kinds of goodies, like power, wealth and will get answers for things that he has doubts. So he invites his friends Valdes and Cornelius to help him in learning trick about magic. After listening his friends’ advice about magic, Dr. Faustus meets the devil Mephistopheles. …show more content…
Later after he comes back to Germany he continues to make some other tricks by conjuring up Alexander the Great, Helen of Troy etc. With other words all of this trick are unimportant comparing to value of his contract with the devil where he has sold his soul to devil.
Before Dr. Faustus signed his contract with devil his intentions were ambitious, his intentions were that with the power and knowledge that he will get from the devil he will attempt to make world the better place for all, but after he signs his contract with the devil he just does some unimportant tricks to please emperor or even the …show more content…
Mephistopheles for the first time in the play appears after Doctor Faustus’s request, and he tells Doctor Faustus that he can be his servant only if Lucifer, the commander of the devils, agrees about it. The second time that Mephistopheles appears in the play is when he brings words that Lucifer has agreed about Doctor Faustus’s proposal if he signs the contract where he says that he will sell his soul to devil if Mephistopheles will serve to him for twenty-four years. According to Lucifer this contract should be signed by Doctor Faustus blood. After contract is signed Mephistopheles teaches Doctor Faustus about nature of hell and the devil, and about