Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Doctor Faustus
- Faustus
- 'ah, Mephastophilis' (13.111)
- 'O, he stays my tongue!' (13.28)
- 'Yet art thou still but Faustus - and a man' (1.23)
- 'The reward of sin is death? That's hard' (1.39)
- 'My heart's so hardened I cannot repent!' (7.18)
- Mephastophilis
- 'O what will not I do to obtain his soul!' (5.73)
- 'Am not tormented with ten thousand hells/In being deprived of everlasting bliss?' (3.79/80)
- 'For I am damned, and am now in hell' (5.136)
- 'We fly in hope to get his glorious soul' (3.49)
- 'In one self place; for where we are is hell' (5.121)
- hell is not a place, but a state of the soul
- Sin
- 'The reward of sin is death? That's hard' (1.39)
- 'never to name God, or to pray to him / To burn his Scriptures, slay his ministers' (7.92/93)
- 'The God thou servest is thine own appetite' (5.11)
- 'by aspiring pride and insolence / for which God threw him for the face of heaven' (3.67/68)
- Temptation
- Ah Christ my saviour, seek to save/ Distressed Faustus' soul' (7.79)
- 'Faustus, this, or what else thou shalt
desire/ shall be performed in twinkling
of an eye' (12.87/88)
- 'Come Helen, come, give me my soul again' (12.93)
- 'Had not sweet pleasure conquered deep despair' (7.25)
- 'tasted the eternal joys of heaven/...deprived of everlasting bliss?' (3.77-79)
- Damnation
- 'Ay, but faustus never shall repent' (7.17)
- 'Assure my soul to be great Lucifers'' (5.55)
- 'Ah my Christ... O spare me, Lucifer!' (13.69 - 71)
- 'Thou shoulds't not think of God; think of the devil' (7.88)
- Low comedy
- 'he would give his soul to the devil for a shoulder of mutton' 'I had
need have it well roasted, and good sauce to it' (4.8)
- 'Stavesacre', 'knavesacre' -deliberate mishearing (4.17-22)
- 'I would desire... ripe grapes' (11.9)
- Redemption
- 'My blood congeals and I can write no more' (5.62)
- 'And curse thee, wicked Mephastophilis/ because thou hast deprived me of those joys' (7.3)
- 'I see an angel hovers o'er thy head' (12.52)
- 'I do repent, and yet I do despair' (12.62)
- Power + Corruption
- 'Tut Faustus, in hell is all manner of delight' (7.153)
- 'Cursed be he that stole away his holiness' meat from the table' (8.83)
- 'Did mount himself to scale Olympus' top (Chorus 2.4)
- 'For when we hear one rack the name of God...//We fly in hope to get his glorious soul' (3.46 & 48)
- 'Had I as many souls as there be scars/ I'd given them all for Mephastophilis' (3.102/103)