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Summary Dr Faustus Character Profiles

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AS Unit 1 - Prose and Drama

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WJEC

This document contains the key quotes from 'The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus' by Christopher Marlowe for each key character. Quotes are labelled the corresponding scene and are divided by character. Characters covered are Faustus, Mephistopheles, Lucifer, the Seven Deadly Sins and the Angels....

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Faustus
Scene 1:
‘His parents base of stock’- Chorus
‘His waxen wings did mount above his reach’- Chorus
‘Heap up gold and be eternised for some wondrous cure.’- opening soliloquy
‘Yet thou art still but Faustus, and a man’.
‘Too serville and illiberal for me.’
‘Faustus, try thy brains to gain a deity.’
‘Resolve me of all ambiguities.’
‘Divinity is based of the three’
‘Tis magic, magic that hath ravished me’

Scene 3:
‘I charge thee wait upon me whilst I live’
‘The word “damnation” terrifies not him’
‘Learn thou of Faustus manly fortitude’
‘Had I as many souls as there be stars, I’d give them all for Mephistopheles.’
‘By him I’ll be great emperor of the world’

Scene 5:
‘Now, Faustus, must thou needs be damned, and canst thou not be saved.’
‘Veni, Veni, Mephistopheles!’- deliberately using inverted Christian language for the devil.
‘Lo, Mephistopheles, for love of thee I cut mine arm’- to Mephistopheles.
‘Homo, fuge!’ ( Fly, O man from the bible)
‘Come I think hell’s a fable’
‘I’ll willingly be damned here. What? Walking, disputing etc.?’
‘O, thou art deceived’

Scene 7:
‘I will renounce this magic and repent’
‘My heart’s so hardened I cannot repent’
‘I am resolved Faustus shall ne’er repent’`
‘Ah, Christ, my Saviour,
Seek to save distressed Faustus’ soul!’ - personal and emotive, makes the audience
sympathise, written in verse.
‘Faustus vows never to look to heaven’
‘That sight would be as pleasing unto me as paradise was to Adam the first day of his
creation.’- ironic biblical inversion.

Scene 8:
‘By the kingdoms of infernal rule, of Styx, Acheron, and the fiery lake’
‘(snatching the cup)’
‘(Faustus hits him a box of the ear)’
‘(Faustus and Mephistopheles beat the friars, and fling fireworks among them)’

Scene 10:
‘It is not my ability to present before your eyes the true substantial bodies of those two
deceased princes’
‘Short’ning my days and thread of vital life’-
‘What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?’

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