DR. FAUSTUS

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So...last week during the class we are Disscued about the play of DR. FAUSTUS.

In this play that is a tragical history of the life and death of Doctor Faustus. It's an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlow.

Say something about...Dr. Faustus's personal life...Born in 1564 Canterbury . He is not belong from rich family and he doesn't like study more but he's very intelligent person...educated first at king's school Canterbury and later at cambridge. He loves to read books.
One day he red a book of magic and felt very interesting than he decides to change life through magic and he thought about future through Magic because he wants to be a popular and a very rich man. And then he started to read many books of magic.

He is the first major Dramatist of Elizabethan period.

So....let's start the activity....

{1} The play directed by Matthew Dunster for Globe theatre ends with this scene (see the image of Lucifer). What does it signify?

Obviously in this picture lucifer is celebrating his victory. Evil wins at the end of play. After a lots of dialogues between Doctor Faustus, Lucifer wins in tempting Doctor Faustus with the help of Mephistophilis.
In the last scene Doctor Faustus regrets a lot and did not want to go to hell, but it was already too late for redemption. Doctor Faustus says :

"or let this hour be but a year, a month, a week, a natural day, that faustus may repent and save his soul!"

Doctor Faustus wants more hour, one more day, or one more year to repent so that his soul may save from devilish world that is hell. But his own decisions led him to fall in hell. Now nothing can be changed. So this is the full victory of the prince of Satanic world Lucifer which is clearly shown in the above image.

{2} Is God present in the play? If yes, where and how? If No, why?

My opinion about this answer is Yes...God is present during the play.
Physical and mentali there are two perspective.
mentally god present throughout the play in the mind of Doctor Faustus.
And physical god came with the roal of An Good Angel and An Old Man.
Dr. Faustus believe that he has a power of knowledge so he don't need a help of god..but he hase to remember and pray to god for save his life.

He recall God for redemption. He wants to repent for all the sins he commited. Doctor Faustus is responsible for his own fall. With the help of necromacy he calls Mephistophilis for the quest of knowledge.
But Mephistophilis the evil draws Doctor Faustus to the world of lust.

{3} What reading and interpretation can be given to this image (see the image of Daedalus and Icarus) with reference to central theme of the play Dr. Faustus?

This is the image of two Greek mythological character- The father Daedalus and his son Icarus.

Icarus wants to fly in the sky so his father makes waxen wings for his son and warns him to do not fly near sun otherwise his wings would have melt. Icarus ignores his fathers's warning and therefore he fall and drowned into the sea. He is responsible for his own fall. Similarly in the play Doctor Faustus drowned in the world of evil by ignoring the warnings of the good angel, the old man, his two good friends. All this good characters warns him a lot to do not listen evil voice and constantly told him to repent for all the sin he has done but Faustus did not listen and at the end when his death comes near he wanted to repent but now it was too late. In this way ignorance and declining from all moral values leads to his tragic end.

Icarus also does the same thing of ignorance and leads towards his tragic fall. Therefore this image is connected with Doctor Faustus.


{4} How do you interpret this painting?👇👇👇

Here I'm going to interpret the picture that you see☝☝☝

First let's describe the whole picture... This picture is about a landscape.. It is a based on fall of Icarus. There is a man who is walking with the horse on the slope....near some tree and Shepherd is grazing sheeps and he is looking at sky may b he is still looking at Daedalus... Near a huge river,stones,fort,ships.....yes can you see a man near a ship is submerging in the water.

A picture of Daedalus and Icarus which we saw above that .....are flying in the centre so both are highlight or people can see them but this man is submerging in the side or a corner That's where no one's eyesight is reached....so no one can see that man.

This is the my point of views.

{5} Read this article by Bhagat singh. In light of the argument made by Bhagat singh in this article,can you re-write last monologue of Doctor Faustus?

As we all know Bhagatsingh is a Indian revolutionary and he gave his life to the nation.
According to the article Bhagatsingh is a atheist and he denied to believe in god. Bhagatsingh always says to make change and be practical. He is always trying to make a change in fake faith.
Ok so, the activity is about that if Bhagatsingh is on the place of Dr. Faustus then write the last monologue it's be like:...

A brave atheist and refused to believe in god never request to god for any kind of help to save me and all.


(Half an hour left to twelve)
Bhagat singh : O Lucifer please go earlier i don't want to be late....pic my soul with you my friend...i don't want to pray to god for protect me and give wraps around me and all that I'm a atheist and can't believe in god and even i don't want to believe in also. I'm don't want to believe in blind faith because it's give a disaster. I'm not Afraid to go in the hell it's my choice and that's it. I don't want a any kind of pity and sympathy of anyone's. Stars,mountain,hills,a drop of water please come and enjoy the event of my life.
Again I'm repeating o Lucifer o Mephistopheles please take my soul.

{6} summarise article discussed in the class:

~ Marlowe and God : tragic theology of dr.faustus...

Harry Levin in The Overreacher, is correct comaprision Marlowe to Goethe.according to Jung death of meaning in the mythic symbols of Chritianity was beginning at renaissance and Reformation period.He says “Mankind has never lacked powerful image to lend magical aid against .
Much more knowledge about marlowe's art and Elizabethan culture than were earlier
readers, we see Dr. Faustus differently. Indeed,
to the longer 1616 Quarto with its explicitly and
harshly moralistic conclusion.
Faustus increasingly aware
of the futility of his bargain with the Devil,
turns with true longing toward salvation.
waverings between exhilaration and despon-
provided an essential core of psychological and


~ Myth,phycology and marlow’s Doctor Faustus..


Many critics of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus spend too much energy seeing
the play solely against its immediate historical background and too little see
ing it as a visionary work speaking significantly to the modern condition.
Harry Levin, in The Overreacher, is correct in comparing Marlowe to Goethe.

Mostly the critics are thinking with modern thoughts and but obvious thay have a objections with the writer's thoughts.
 Mephistopheles and Lucifer, good angle and bed angle , mythical character Troy and Helen are Dramatic.
 Good and bed both angels are the shadow of ego....
 And in the last Dr Faustus gave his soul to the Lucifer and he became a master.