Christopher Marlowe’s Dr.Faustus examines the tragic fall of Dr.Faustus , a talented and a well-respected German scholar at Wittenburg, feels despair and dissatisfaction because the limits of human knowledge; law, religion, medicine, and logic. He has learned everything he can learn, his ambition is to…
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by Christopher Marlowe
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Christopher Marlowe
Early Modern English
Tragedy
c. 1592
16th century Europe
Doctor Faustus, Chorus, Wagner, Good Angel, Bad Angel, Valdes, Cornelius, Three scholars, Lucifer, Mephistophilis, Robin, Belzebub, Seven Deadly Sins
The main themes in the play are the absurdity of ambition, true versus illusive power, and good versus evil.
Doctor Faustus, a talented German intellectual, believes that he has learned all that can be learned by standard means. So to explore the limits of human knowledge he disides to resort to magic.