The Questing Individual, Dr. Faustus
The Questing Individual
Dr. Faustus
Faustus is the protagonist and consequently, the tragic hero in Marlowe's play. He is a character who contradicts himself often. He is capable of tremendous eloquence and beauty, capable of possessing awesome ambition, yet he is also capable of a weird, and almost willful blindness and willingness to waste powers that he will gain at great cost. Faustus is a character that the reader becomes attached to because of his brilliant ambition. However, his ambition to know everything and be all-powerful is not only what makes him great, but also is the reason for his demise.
Faustus is a man that the reader knows of as a man who has knowledge in all things human'. He is man whose goals go beyond the regular knowledge of things. This is why, despite the warnings that are given to him, he tells the devil to return to his master with an offer of his soul in exchange for twenty-four years of service from Mephastophilis and to have the......
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