The Morality Of Christopher Faustus In Christopher Marlowe's Play

Faustus in Christopher Marlowe’s play is a conflicting character, his capability of words is tremendous and he is very ambitious, yet doesn’t take a minute to think which makes him a little strange, he is willing to do anything and lose everything in order to get what he wants from Lucifer even if that means he will waste powers that he has gained at great cost. When Faustus is introduced to the reader, he is just preparing to board on his career as a magician, and while we anticipate that things will turn out badly as the chorus prepare us there is a grand glory to Faustus as he contemplates all the marvels that his magical powers will produce. Faustus wants to sell his soul to Lucifer in order for Mephistopheles to serve him, with Mephistopheles by his side Faustus imagines collecting wealth from the four corners of the globe, reshaping the map of Europe , and gaining access to every scrap of knowledge about the universe. Faustus through the play an arrogant, self-aggrandizing man, but he is ambitious which is really impressive. To me Faustus represents the spirit of the Renaissance; in a God-centered universe Faustus embraces the human possibility, that a human can do anything without the help of God. …show more content…
Absolute power corrupts Faustus: once he can do everything, he no longer wants to do anything. Instead, he walk around Europe with no cause, playing tricks on villagers and performing conjuring acts to impress various heads of the state. He uses his incredible gifts for what is essentially trifling entertainment. As he visits ever more minor nobles and performs more unimportant magic tricks, the Faustus of the first few scenes is entirely swallowed up in mediocrity. Only in the final scene Faustus is rescued from mediocrity, as the knowledge of his soon to come doom restores his earlier gift of powerful rhetoric. After all he realized his mistake (scene:14 act :the same