Legend goes that the Devil himself appeared at one of Marlowe’s shows, so even the audience was fearful of the Devil’s notice. For the audience, Faust’s religious salvation was at stake. Faustus, good and evil, religion versus magic, and between Medieval and Renaissance thinking.įaustus started out as a morality tale in a Protestant-leaning region of what is now modern-day Germany, in a time and place which believed in the literal Devil on Earth, it was a frightening tale, and warned against godlessness, worldly ambition, and of course, magic. Some of these binaries include the author and Dr. There are many examples of dichotomy that are established in Marlowe’s play that back up the notion of why Faustus was being torn between two different worlds. Faustus is a divided soul, pulled between competing interests and needs. John Faustus, struggles between following God or Lucifer. In Christopher Marlowe’s play, Doctor Faustus, the protagonist, Dr.
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