Doctor Faustus
Ques- Discuss Doctor Faustus as a tragedy relevant to all times
Ans- Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe is a Tragedy Relevant To All Times.
Pity and fear are the emotions that, according to the Greek philosopher Aristotle, are aroused by the experience of watching a tragedy. Doctor Faustus is a late sixteenth-century morality play, designed to teach its audience about the spiritual dangers of excessive learning and ambition. In fact, ‘tragedy’ according to Aristotle's description (in the Poetics) is a play that represents a central action or plot that is serious and significant. They involve a socially prominent main character who is neither evil nor morally perfect, who moves from a state of happiness to a state of misery because of some frailty or error of judgment: this is the tragic hero, the remarkable individual whose fall stimulates in the spectator intense feelings of pity and fear. Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus is a definite member of the tragic genre. He is an arrogant yet impressively ambitious scholar who desires grandiose knowledge without the help and guidance from the world's major religion, Christianity. Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is a tragedy because it deals with topics much inherent to human nature. The hunger for wealth, the power of ambition, and the desperate seeking for a better place for ourselves often expose our worse qualities: The weaknesses that appear as a result of our obvious co-dependence to these material and superficial emotions.
When Faustus chose to make a pact with the Devil, this was allegorical in that we, as people, everyday make pacts of a similar kind: We sometimes engage in behaviors that we know are not correct just for the sake of getting something we want. In other occasions, we befriend people, or make agreements that we know might hurt someone else and yet go for it when we really are hungry for something we want.
Here are several other reasons for why Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is a tragedy
Ans- Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe is a Tragedy Relevant To All Times.
Pity and fear are the emotions that, according to the Greek philosopher Aristotle, are aroused by the experience of watching a tragedy. Doctor Faustus is a late sixteenth-century morality play, designed to teach its audience about the spiritual dangers of excessive learning and ambition. In fact, ‘tragedy’ according to Aristotle's description (in the Poetics) is a play that represents a central action or plot that is serious and significant. They involve a socially prominent main character who is neither evil nor morally perfect, who moves from a state of happiness to a state of misery because of some frailty or error of judgment: this is the tragic hero, the remarkable individual whose fall stimulates in the spectator intense feelings of pity and fear. Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus is a definite member of the tragic genre. He is an arrogant yet impressively ambitious scholar who desires grandiose knowledge without the help and guidance from the world's major religion, Christianity. Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is a tragedy because it deals with topics much inherent to human nature. The hunger for wealth, the power of ambition, and the desperate seeking for a better place for ourselves often expose our worse qualities: The weaknesses that appear as a result of our obvious co-dependence to these material and superficial emotions.
When Faustus chose to make a pact with the Devil, this was allegorical in that we, as people, everyday make pacts of a similar kind: We sometimes engage in behaviors that we know are not correct just for the sake of getting something we want. In other occasions, we befriend people, or make agreements that we know might hurt someone else and yet go for it when we really are hungry for something we want.
Here are several other reasons for why Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is a tragedy