Discuss Marlowe’s use of language in this passage and how it contributes to the characterisation of Faustus.
Discuss Marlowe’s use of language in this passage and how it contributes to the characterisation of Faustus.
After reading the passage taken from, Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. I will discuss the use of language in the passage and how it contributes to Faustus’ characterisation.
Doctor Faustus is a standard 5 act play typical of the renaissance period. It is a morality play with hints of a tragedy. Written in blank verse; each line contains ten syllables. It is also written to an iambic pentameter, this metre most resembles English speech.
Many questions are asked. Faustus asks a one every time he speaks, this shows his thirst for knowledge, he wants to know everything. These questions are also used to slow the performance, forcing pauses whilst waiting for a response.
Faustus shows he is not afraid of his fate if he sells his soul. “This word ‘damnation’ terrifies not him,” (Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, Act 1, Scene 3, line 60). He speaks about himself in the third person, showing detachment from himself and the chain of events that he has started. It shows he believes that he is in control not the Devils. Due to the fact that he doesn’t believe in ‘hell’ “For he confounds hell in Elysium, His ghost be with the old philosophers!” (Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, Act 1, Scene 3, line 61-62) He thinks he will not be in hell but with the Greek philosophers, in pagan heaven. This shows Faustus to be quite arrogant; he comes across as thinking he is better than the devil but also as quite imaginative.
Repetition is used in this section. Lucifer is repeated six times three times in lines seventy two to seventy four. This repetition by Mephistopheles in three lines is important showing the power that Lucifer has “Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer,” (Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, Act 1, Scene 3, line 72). Mephistopheles tries to dissuade Faustus from the decision that he is about to undertake so flippantly. In this part we also
After reading the passage taken from, Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. I will discuss the use of language in the passage and how it contributes to Faustus’ characterisation.
Doctor Faustus is a standard 5 act play typical of the renaissance period. It is a morality play with hints of a tragedy. Written in blank verse; each line contains ten syllables. It is also written to an iambic pentameter, this metre most resembles English speech.
Many questions are asked. Faustus asks a one every time he speaks, this shows his thirst for knowledge, he wants to know everything. These questions are also used to slow the performance, forcing pauses whilst waiting for a response.
Faustus shows he is not afraid of his fate if he sells his soul. “This word ‘damnation’ terrifies not him,” (Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, Act 1, Scene 3, line 60). He speaks about himself in the third person, showing detachment from himself and the chain of events that he has started. It shows he believes that he is in control not the Devils. Due to the fact that he doesn’t believe in ‘hell’ “For he confounds hell in Elysium, His ghost be with the old philosophers!” (Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, Act 1, Scene 3, line 61-62) He thinks he will not be in hell but with the Greek philosophers, in pagan heaven. This shows Faustus to be quite arrogant; he comes across as thinking he is better than the devil but also as quite imaginative.
Repetition is used in this section. Lucifer is repeated six times three times in lines seventy two to seventy four. This repetition by Mephistopheles in three lines is important showing the power that Lucifer has “Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer,” (Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, Act 1, Scene 3, line 72). Mephistopheles tries to dissuade Faustus from the decision that he is about to undertake so flippantly. In this part we also