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Limitations of Human Experience - ESSAY PLAN
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- English Literature
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- Cardiff University (CF)
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‘Gothic tales seem to satisfy a deep-seated fascination with limits of humanexperience.’ Do you agree?
Introduction: Yes – all the protagonist are over reacher/boundaries, consequences. They have to return to what is expected of
them. F = damned, M = killed, BC = goes back to mother. (ensure to give a simple argument)
Faustus: Evidence:
Reached the boundary of knowledge capable in terms First soliloquy – study (gothic setting often reflect the
of academic scholar central character)
Prepared to give away his soul = breaks boundaries via Signing of the contract – coagulation of blood,
black arts Mephastopholis
Renaissance audience – testing what was linked to god East India trading company, calling Mephastopholis,
and what was linked to man. Michael Angelo/Leonardo journey around the world (setting!)
Da Vinci - revolution in arts and science
Awareness that there is a limitation of human Ask Mephastopholis and he doesn’t answer, ultimately
experience and to got beyond that you must involve Faustus is dragged to hell
supernatural GCOB
Morality play – every man. Ultimately there is a limit to
what humans are allowed to experience. Faustus
doesn’t recognise where his limit is
Not just Faustus – mirroring with Rafe
Macbeth: Evidence:
Fascination with Witches – bring in context Witches in Jacobean times
Idea that fascination for audience and Macbeth of Sol 1 – trammel up consequence, angels, return to
whether he should/shouldn’t kill the king (sol 1) plague the inventor
Not limited physically to murder but what limits you is Hallucinations, blood and sleep imagery highlighting
moral conscious. the idea of being a fascination of what human
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