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damnation一  \nwhere a brilliant mind  \nstrives for more  \nthan the world  \n“Knowledge is power,but power without limitsleads to destruction.”  \ncan give.  \n1.PLOT  \n2.CHARACTERS  \n3.CONFLICT  \n● Prologue-Chorus rejects conventionalepic heroism;introduces Faustus.  \nDr Faustus-brilliant scholar,ambitious,tragic hero.  \n● Human aspiration vs divine limits.  \n● Faustus dissatisfied with traditionalstudies;turns to necromancy.  \n● Free will vs predestination.  \nMephistophilis -servant/agent of hell,complex and suffering.  \n● Knowledge vs wisdom.  \n● Summons Lucifer/Mephistophilis;makes a 24-year pact for his soul inexchange for magic and service.  \n● Lucifer-ruler/representative of hell.  \n● Repentance vs despair.  \n● Good Angel/Evil Angel-moral confict.  \n● Individual desire vs Christian morality.  \n● Enjoys worldly pleasures,tricks andknowledge(e.g.Helen of Troy).  \n● Wagner-comic servant  \n● Faustus vs himself.  \n·Old Man-Christian faith and repentance.  \n● Good Angel/Bad Angel and the Old Manrepresent moral conflict.  \n● Helen-idealized beauty/temptation.  \n● Final despair-Faustus repents too late;devils take him.  \n● Chorus-moralcommentator.  \n666.QUOTES  \n5.DRAMATIC TECHNIQUES  \n# 4.THEMES\n\n①\"Not marching in the fields of Thrasymene.\"(Chorus,Prologue-rejects epic heroism;introduces Faustus through learning and ambition.)  \n● Soliloquy.  \n● Ambition and overreaching.  \n·Chorus /prologue /epilogue.  \n②\"Was this the face that launchd a thousand ships.\"(Probably Faustus-Helen of Troy;beauty and iluson.)  \n● Knowledge and forbidden knowledge.  \n● Allegory.  \n● Morality-play conventions.  \n● Free will,sin and repentance.  \n③“A sound magician is a mighty god.”(Mephistophilis -power of magic.)  \n● Good/Evil Angels.  \n● Damnation and salvation.  \n● Comic scenes.  \n④\"The reward of sin is death.\"(Old Man-Christian warning.)  \n● Appearance vs reality.  \n● Dramatic irony.  \n● Symbolism.  \n● Time and mortality.  \n⑤\"O,I'I leap up to my God!Who pulls me down?\"(Faustus-final despair.)  \n● Spectacle and supernatural machinery.  \n● Power and illusion.Christian morality.  \n● Contrast.  \n⑥\"Ugly hell,gape not!Come not,Lucifer!\"(Faustus -rejecting damnation.)  \n● Blank verse and prose.  \n● Tragic structure.  \nNote:Exact quotations are in quotation marks.Paraphrased ideas are not.  \n# O8.CRITICISM/INTERPRETATION\n\n7.STRUCTURE/CONTEXT  \nFIRST LINE/OPENING  \n·Wrtten:c.1592-93.  \n● Faustus as Renaissance overreacherand tragic hero.  \n\"Not marching in the fields  \n● First performed by Admiral's Men,commonly associated with Elizabethan theatre.  \n● Tension between medieval moralityand Renaissance individualism.  \nof Thrasymene”  \n(Chorus,Prologue)  \n● Two versions:A-text(1604)and B-text(1616).  \n● Tragedy of misdirected aspiration.  \nThe play opens by rejecting conventional  \n·Mephistophilis as more than simple villain.  \n● Five-act tragic framework.  \nepic heroism and introducing Faustus  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