All humans have a natural tendency towards negative behavior, which creates a desire to become better. One way humans learn how to be better is through experience, whether our own or others’. By listening or reading others’ stories, one can become more compassionate by understanding where other people are coming from. After all, most people’s “lives [are] more difficult, more complex” than our own, which gives us a different perspective of this difficult situation we all face: life. Despite being flawed, humans never stop working to become better even though perfection is unattainable. It seems evident that people, who go beyond just wanting to be good and strive for perfection, end up causing destruction in their life. Throughout Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, human limits are shown and an effort to push these
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Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. Faustus wants to exceed human limits by achieving not only total earthly knowledge, but also godly knowledge. He even says, “Stretch as far as doth the mind of man. A sound magician is a mighty God” (5). However, the only way to obtain this power is to sell his soul to the devil. Mephistophilis warns him how miserable it is by saying he “conspir’d against our God with Lucifer, and [is] for ever damn’d with Lucifer” (13). In this moment, Faustus is blinded by the desire to break human boundaries and ignores this advice believing magic will bring him happiness. Once Faustus gains this knowledge he is temporarily happy, but since he made a deal with Lucifer this will only remain for 24 years. In the end, Faustus is too late in asking for forgiveness and in result is condemned to hell. He truly regrets his decision and says, “Their souls are soon dissolv’d in elements, But mine must live, still plagu’d in hell” (56). Though having this unchallenged knowledge seemed inviting, it causes Faustus to be miserable and more flawed than before he made the
Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. Faustus wants to exceed human limits by achieving not only total earthly knowledge, but also godly knowledge. He even says, “Stretch as far as doth the mind of man. A sound magician is a mighty God” (5). However, the only way to obtain this power is to sell his soul to the devil. Mephistophilis warns him how miserable it is by saying he “conspir’d against our God with Lucifer, and [is] for ever damn’d with Lucifer” (13). In this moment, Faustus is blinded by the desire to break human boundaries and ignores this advice believing magic will bring him happiness. Once Faustus gains this knowledge he is temporarily happy, but since he made a deal with Lucifer this will only remain for 24 years. In the end, Faustus is too late in asking for forgiveness and in result is condemned to hell. He truly regrets his decision and says, “Their souls are soon dissolv’d in elements, But mine must live, still plagu’d in hell” (56). Though having this unchallenged knowledge seemed inviting, it causes Faustus to be miserable and more flawed than before he made the