Doctor Faustus: What do we learn about Faustus? What are our responses to his ambition? What is your response to key issued linked to pride?

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Sakaynah Hunter AB10

Doctor Faustus: What do we learn about Faustus?

What are our responses to his ambition?

What is your response to key issued linked to pride?

We first learn that Faustus is an academic and well educated individual from the first few lines, having studied at ‘Wittenberg’ we are prone to believe he is a highly educated man; furthermore, we begin to understand same of his qualities, such as, being a ‘quick learner’, a master of theology, yet after a change in register, we begin to identify the fact that his awareness of being an intelligent person, turns into cockiness and self-pride.

             ‘His waxen wings did mount above his reach’

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This allows us to pick up on the idea that his desire for knowledge and power is beyond the scope of man; in other words, Dr Faustus feels that he has to make decisions about his future, having mastered a brilliant career. Philosophy, medicine, law and theology doesn’t satisfy hum any longer and this is where we begin to embark on Faustus’ attractions to the secrets of magic; having mastered all other aspects of knowledge, he want to master craft.

Faustus’ journey to creating magic reveals a lot about his character in just the first few pages. Faustus originally ...

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