Doctor Faustus

Faustus
1. 'ah, Mephastophilis' (13.111)
2. 'O, he stays my tongue!' (13.28)
3. 'Yet art thou still but Faustus - and a man' (1.23)
4. 'The reward of sin is death? That's hard' (1.39)
5. 'My heart's so hardened I cannot repent!' (7.18)
Mephastophilis
1. 'O what will not I do to obtain his soul!' (5.73)
2. 'Am not tormented with ten thousand hells/In being deprived of everlasting bliss?' (3.79/80)
3. 'For I am damned, and am now in hell' (5.136)
4. 'We fly in hope to get his glorious soul' (3.49)
5. 'In one self place; for where we are is hell' (5.121)
  1. hell is not a place, but a state of the soul
Sin
1. 'The reward of sin is death? That's hard' (1.39)
2. 'never to name God, or to pray to him / To burn his Scriptures, slay his ministers' (7.92/93)
3. 'The God thou servest is thine own appetite' (5.11)
4. 'by aspiring pride and insolence / for which God threw him for the face of heaven' (3.67/68)
Temptation
1. Ah Christ my saviour, seek to save/ Distressed Faustus' soul' (7.79)
2. 'Faustus, this, or what else thou shalt desire/ shall be performed in twinkling of an eye' (12.87/88)
3. 'Come Helen, come, give me my soul again' (12.93)
4. 'Had not sweet pleasure conquered deep despair' (7.25)
5. 'tasted the eternal joys of heaven/...deprived of everlasting bliss?' (3.77-79)
Damnation
1. 'Ay, but faustus never shall repent' (7.17)
2. 'Assure my soul to be great Lucifers'' (5.55)
3. 'Ah my Christ... O spare me, Lucifer!' (13.69 - 71)
4. 'Thou shoulds't not think of God; think of the devil' (7.88)
Low comedy
1. '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)
2. 'Stavesacre', 'knavesacre' -deliberate mishearing (4.17-22)
3. 'I would desire... ripe grapes' (11.9)
Redemption
1. 'My blood congeals and I can write no more' (5.62)
2. 'And curse thee, wicked Mephastophilis/ because thou hast deprived me of those joys' (7.3)
3. 'I see an angel hovers o'er thy head' (12.52)
4. 'I do repent, and yet I do despair' (12.62)
Power + Corruption
1. 'Tut Faustus, in hell is all manner of delight' (7.153)
2. 'Cursed be he that stole away his holiness' meat from the table' (8.83)
3. 'Did mount himself to scale Olympus' top (Chorus 2.4)
4. 'For when we hear one rack the name of God...//We fly in hope to get his glorious soul' (3.46 & 48)
5. 'Had I as many souls as there be scars/ I'd given them all for Mephastophilis' (3.102/103)

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