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Dr Faustus Explication

Dr Faustus Explication

In the play Doctor Faustus (by Christopher Marlowe) the title character is faced with the decision of either selling his soul to Lucifer for earthly riches or repenting and living in heaven forever.  Faustus goes through many periods of indecision, yet none is more noticeable than in his quiet thoughts near the end of his life:
	
What are thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die? 
	Thy fatal time draws to a final end; 
	Despair doth drive distrust into my thoughts.
	Confound these passions with quiet sleep. 
	Tush, Christ did call the thief upon the cross! 
	Then rest thee Faustus, quiet in conceit. 
				(4.5, lines 24-30)

It is in these words that we, the audience, are allowed to see the true moral fiber of the lead character, Faustus.  It is here that we find the different personas that compose the psychologically plagued man.  
	The first noticeable trait is Faustus’ indecisive nature.  He continually waivers between heaven and hell; the latter gives him immediate pleasure, and heaven inevitably loses in the end.  At the top of the passage, Faustus apparently knows his fate, yet he internally persuades himself not to worry about the future.  Thus, we see Faustus

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