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12 Cards in this Set
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"Thou art fallen into that damned art" |
Shows outsiders views towards faustus, a condemnation of his devilish choices |
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"Hell claims his right" |
A personification of hell enforces an idea of it not being just a place within our minds. To claim "his right" is the reason hell was created as Satan believed he should be as powerful as god and was punished. Faustus believed himself to be a master of the devil and he too will be punished in return |
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"A sound magician is a mighty god." |
He is aspiring to be God like, even just a sound magician is as good as the best of the gods, illustrates his feelings towards the power of necromancy |
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"Go, and return an old Franciscan friar; That holy shape becomes a devil best." |
Ironic criticism of religion, he wants him to return in a more 'normal' appearance and ironically that is a devil in a friars costume |
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"Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it." |
Mephastophilis - once you have sinned you can never leave hell, it is no longer a physical place but a state of mind |
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"O, Faustus, leave these frivolous demands,Which strike [36] a terror to my fainting soul" |
mephastophilis - even the servant of Lucifer cannot conceal how awful he'll is |
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"If thou repent, devils will tear thee in pieces." |
evil devil - Faustus is stuck, if he stays with Lucifer, he will inevitably be torn to pieces by devils and the same will happen if he repents |
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"That, looking down, the earth appear'd to me No bigger than my hand in quantity;" |
Faustus talking of himself in a God-like way |
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"O, by aspiring pride and insolence,For which God threw him from the face of heaven" |
Lucifer is not presented as evil, more as a curious being who was seeking more that God could provide him. God appears the villain here Can draw such strong comparisons between Lucifer and Faustus, is Lucifers situation foreshadowing what will come for Faustus - an eternity in hell |
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"The god thou serv'st is thine own appetite" |
Faustus - he is not fulfilling the needs of a God but instead his own appetite - greed comes before anything |
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"To him I'll build an altar and a churchAnd offer lukewarm blood of new-born babes." |
Faustus is not being as transgressive and original as he thought - here he is not stepping into new realms with his sinning but he actually follows many of the original sins from the old testament - e.g. here is human sacrifice of a child, not something new was a central feature of many gothic works of art (e.g. having a child over to Lucifer) |
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"I am Pride. I disdain to have any parents. I am like to Ovid's flea. I can creep into every corner of a wench." |
Pride - pride is the first of the sins to appear, potentially showing where the source of sin is in Faustus, almost a ranking of importance Pride was the original sin, Satan was thrown from heaven for his hubris - his excessive pride and arrogance Satan didn't want a God ruling over him in the same way pride doesn't want anything coming before them |
