DR. FAUSTUS

Dr. Faustus’’

comes from The Faust Legend!

Dr. Faustus

is a brilliant man.

is a magic-man

has an insatiable desire of knowledge

humiliates the human-being and wants to have godlike qualities

• He decides to make a deal with the Devil • Because he wants to have;

_Limitless knowledge_more power in the World

__We can say that he wants to be like God!!

_When he has made the deal with the great devil LUCIFER , he accepts these terms;

TERMS

Faustus is to be alloted 24 years of life on earth, during which time he will have Mephistopheles (a devil having lower grade than the great Lucifer) as his personal servant.

At the end he will give his soul over to Lucifer as payment.

• He accepts the terms• Lucifer brings to Faustus

the personification of the seven deadly sins.• Faustus fails to see angels

warnıngs and ignores them.• Seven Deadly Sins;_Wrath, Greed, Sloth, Pride, Lust, Envy, Gluttony.• From this point until the

end of the play, Faustus does nothing worthwhile, having begun his pact with the attitude that he would be able to do anything.

WHERE IS THE

?

He does a lot of worthless things with his super power. While doing these things,

Good Angels come –

try to convince him to ask God for forgiveness.

Faustus rejects their offers.

• But!! In the final scene he cries out to Christ to redeem him.

• Well,it is too late…

• And the God doesn’t forgive him.

• If Faustus dies without repenting and accepting God,

• he will be damned forever.

• As we learn from Mephistopheles, hell is not merely a place, but separation from God's love

• Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually. Ugly hell gape not! Come not, Lucifer! I’ll burn my books—ah, Mephistopheles!• Some critics have tried to deal with this problem by claiming that Faustus

does not actually repent in the final speech but that he only speaks wistfully about the possibility of repentance. Such an argument, however, is difficult to reconcile with lines such as:

• O, I’ll leap up to my God! Who pulls me down?• . . . • One drop of blood would save my soul, half a drop: ah my Christ—• (13.69–71)