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Dr. Faustus




1) The play directed by Matthew Dunster for Globe theater ends with this scene (see the image of Lucifer). What does it signify?


I believe that God's presence is the evidence of the absence of evil because it is said that God would never allow bad things to happen in His presence. So, where there is God, evil can not do any bad thing. We can say that if one chooses the wrong way even after noticing the right way , he has to pay for this.




2) Is God present in the play? If yes, where and how? If No, why?




According to me, There is no ‘GOD’ in the play because, ‘where Devill holds the place, no place remain for ‘God”. But although we can say that good angel and old man were there to bring him back to his true way. So, many of considered them as God. Although, we cannot consider them as God. So, there was no God at all.




3) What reading and interpretation can be given to this image (see the image of Daedalus and Icarus) with reference to central theme of the play Dr. Faustus?



. My response to last image which suggests the great fall of Icarus. If we compare the situation of Icarus and Dr.Faustus, we find a similar point only the great fall of both at last. Here Icarus disobeyed his father’s advice and flew high to near sun and his waxen wings started melt; he fell down and died. In Marlowe’s ‘Dr.Faustus’ we find ‘HUBRIS’ in character of Dr.Faustus. “His hunger for knowledge later on turns into the lust for woman”. His pride upon his knowledge led him to his dead.

4) How do you interpret this painting?

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