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Dr Faustus quotes
- And glutted more with learning's golden gifts (C1:24)
Annotations:
- links to gothic excess - gluttony being one of the seven cardinal sins.
- Nothing so sweet as magic to him (C1:26)
Annotations:
- Ironic use of adjective- "sweet" would normally be associated with innocence.
- Divinity, adieu! (1:48)
Annotations:
- Faustus dismisses 4 practices - medicine, law, philosophy and divinity - this shows Faustus turning away from God.
- necromantic books are heavenly! (1:50)
Annotations:
- This is a paradox - juxtaposing necromancy (evil) with ideas of heaven (divinity) to create irony.
- This word damnation terrifies not him (2:57)
Annotations:
- Dr. Faustus's arrogance possible denial.
- leaving these trifles of men's souls (2:60)
Annotations:
- Over reaching - beyond the "trifles" of other men, looking to the powers of hell to satisfy his desires - egotistical.
- Why this is hell, nor am I out of it (2:75)
Annotations:
- eternal hell - this suggests hell is a state as well as a physical place and has echoes of Paradise Lost - I bore a hell within me, also referenced in Frankenstein.
- O Faustus, leave these frivolous demands/ Which strike a terror to my fainting soul
Annotations:
- This shows Mephastophilis giving Faustus an opportunity to back out of the contract, telling him to turn back and away from Lucifer.
- Seeing Faustus hath incurred eternal death (2:87)
Annotations:
- Faustus has been damned eternally, the opposite of eternal life from Christ - Christ died to conquer death however as Faustus has binded himself to the devil, he is compelled to an eternal death.
- So he will spare him four and twenty years (2:90)
Annotations:
- Living entirely in the moment - Faustus is willing to sell his soul to the devil for twenty four years of pleasure - this would have shocked an Elizabethan audience that valued the soul over physical being.
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