"Mr. Big Stuff: Hubris In Dr. Faustus"

Mr. Big Stuff: Hubris in Marlowes Dr. Faustus         Christopher Marlowe, born in 1564, was 1 of the Renaissances most celebrated writers writing the epic poem submarine and Leander and the poem The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. However, his didactic routine The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus is among one of the most influential plays because of its ghostlike undertone and moral institutes. The main characters. Faustus, tragic flaw is his hubris. Hubris, as defined by William Harmon and C. Hugh Holman, is Overweening pride or impudence that results in the misfortune of the protagonist of a tragedy... (254). Moreover, Faustus hubris leads him to ...break moral law, try on vainly to transcend limitation...[and] ignore a divine inform with calamitous results (Harmon and Holman 254).

        Faustus breaks moral law by conjuring the berate in exposure three of the play. He, in Latin says,                  whitethorn the gods of the lower regions favor me.

                 Farewell to the trinity...Prince of the East,                  Belzebub, monarch or burn down hell and                  Edwards 2                  Demogorgon, we pray to you that Mephastophilis                  May appear and rise.

                                   (Translation of I.iii. 16-19) During this fourth dimension in the Renaissance, and even presently, to solicit the Devil was definitely an evil act.



Faustus feels that the Devil and his general, Mephastophilis, can be used as vehicles to get to forbidden knowledge. He turns to black magic specifically ...to shunning the rational world of knowledge... (Cheney 101) Faustus finds that his world is ...absent of pleasure and love and...he finds that it imprisons him deep down a purely mental reality... (Cheney 102) Seemingly, Faustus is bored with his extremely teeming amount of knowledge. He boasts, longwindedly, of his contributions to medicine and scholarship in scene one.

        Having commenced, be a divine in show,         Yet take at the end...

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