Thursday, March 17, 2011

Dr. Faustus

In the last part of Scene 1, Faustus talks about how he is going to learn how to do magic/alchemy. The two scholars are going to teach him instead of showing him so that he can be better at magic than they are. I think they might use Faustus's intelligence and knowledge to become better at magic as well, maybe use him to achieve the stuff they want to. From what it sounds Faustus is going to conjure up something, maybe spirits, maybe the devil? I think that either he's going to be possessed or at least the dark magic will cause him to become even more evil. I think by the end of the play he'll have to choose between God or the Devil? Maybe he will learn a lesson or he will die, like in mnay of the tragedys in Marlowe's time. I think that Faustus believes he has more control and knowledge than he actually does. I think he has so much confidence and belief that he holds more control than he does, that he will try to control this dark magic and the Devil, and he won't succeed. I think the dark magic will over power him and he'll cease to exist, or it will begin to control him.

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