Thinking activity :'Dr.Faustus' by Christopher Marlowe

Thinking activity : Dr.Faustus  by Christopher Marlow 



1) The play directed by Mathew Dunster for Globe theatre ends with this scene (see the image of Lusifer) what does it signify?

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       In the last scene of the play directed by Mathew Dunster for Globe theatre it signifies that after taking the soul of Dr Faustus Lucifer become more powerful. We can see this thing to see the wide wings of Lucifer. It signify the power of evil against the God. Also signifies that at the end of the play Evil wins against the God. It also shows that when we doing something wrong against the God and we doesn't repentance it. We leads towards tragic end.

    It also shows that Lucifer get more power after taking the soul of dead person. He was successful to take the soul of Dr Faustus. So it also shows his success.So it shows his Great Evil power, success against the God.

2) Is God present in the play ? If yes,where and how? If No,why?

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      In this play we can tell that God is present in the form of Good Angles, Old man ,Good fiends. Also God present mentally in the form of good inner voice of Dr. Faustus. So with these characters God is present in the play and these are tell him not to give his soul to Mephistopheles. But he ignores them. They warning him many times.

• O,Faustus,lay that dammed book aside, And gaze not on it,lest it tempt soul, And heap God's heavy wrath upon thy head! Read, read the Scriptures: that is blasphemy.

• Sweet Faustus, leave that execrable art.

• Ah,stay,good Faustus,stay the desperate stabs! I see an angle hovers o'er thy head, And,with a vial full of precious grace, Offers to pour the same into thy soul: Then call for mercy,and avoid despair.

      So with these characters God is present in the play.

3) What reading and interpretation can be given to this image ( see the image of Daedalus and Icarus) with the reference to central theme of the play ' Dr.Faustus'?

                 

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       This picture of Daedalus and lcarus is Greek mythology. In this Daedalus was the father of Icarus. Daedalus create gigantic wings using branches of asier and connected them with wax. He taught Icarus how to fly but told him to keep away from the sun because the heat would make the wax melt ,destroying the wings.

    Although he was warned by Daedalus. Icarus was too young and too enthusiastic about flying. Icarus ignores his father's warning and reach near the sun and wax was destroyed and he fall down and drown into the sea. So he was responsible for his own fall. Similarly in this play Dr Faustus ignored the warnings of Good angle,Old man ,Good friends and his own inner voice. But he ignored them and sold his soul to Mephistopheles to became more powerfull than God and get more knowledge. He has 'Hubris' means excessive pride of knowledge and this thing leads him towards his own tragic fall. He ignored everything for become more powerful than God.

    So thus how ignorance of good thing told by good characters it leads him towards his tragic and terrible end of his life. So this thing is common in both. In myth and in play ' Dr Faustus'.

                 Thank you...