Monday, 5 August 2019

Thinking Activity: Dr.faustus'by Christopher Marlowe

■ The play directed by Matthew Dunsterfor Globe theater ends with this scene (see the image of Lucifer).what does signify ?


    The image of  prince of hall Lucifer it signify that at the end of the play devil spirit wins and Marlowe portrayed the Lucifer as powerful man because of  that he has power to take Dr.faustus  in hall. The Dr.faustus also has 'hunger for knowledge' only for that  he sighed agreement to sell his soul to Lucifer  after 24 year. Therefore at end evil  power celebrated victory over the god and good  spirit. 

     Marlowe portrayed the Lucifer as become a evil yet powerful person. In this image also  it signify the supremacy of Lucifer over Dr.faustus. 

■ Is God present in the play? if yes where and how? If no, why?

   Yes ,God present in the play.so many characters are  represent the presence of  god  as good  angel ,two scholars,  old man and chorus. Here good  angel is the  voice  of god .the good angel also urges the faustus  to repent  and serves himself to God God. Last old man come try to  understand  to faustus  you are in wrong way  and faustus  resolution but mephistopheles  prevented  to do that.

  In picture christ cross as a symbol. In we find that presence of god ,of course is symbolizes the holiness and good spirit and faustus believed in the god. Before the deals with mephistopheles he has cross of christ.

■ 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. 



   
      The picture relates to Greek  mythology,  icarus succeeds in flying  and his father won before  to fly that don't fly to high because the wings  made from wax and  because of sunlight it became melting and icarus ignores his father's warning and  he has high ambition of flying because of that fall in to the  sea. 
       Like a same this  idea implied  in Dr.faustus  because after get so many warning by old man,good angel, two scholars  yet Dr.faustus  choose  wrong way to get knowledge and fall like  icarus in Play. 

■ Read this article by Bhagat Singh. In light of the arguments made by Bhagat Singh in this article can you re- write last monologue of doctor faustus. 

   The character of  Bhagat Singh is totally different from the Dr.faustus  because the Dr.faustus  at last resolut  for the his wrong  decision of sing agreement with mephistopheles only  because of  hunger for knowledge.  So in that place if implied  Bhagat Singh's  character  at that time  he never pray to God and never repent for what he done. Bhagat Singh also not think as faustus at end time of fall. Therefore  he never regret infrante of the God.

■ How do you interpret this painting?

           Landscape with the fall of icarus 

    The picture of landscape with the fall of icarus is a painting by pieter Bruegelthe Elder. It's relates to Greek mythology succeed in flying with wings of by his father Daedalus. His father made wings from the 
Beeswax. His father won before the flying that don't fly so high it became dangerous for icarus  but only because of his high ambitions of  to fly high he ignoring his father's warning  and while icarus close to sun at that time beeswax was melting and icarus fall down in the sea. 

       That situation represents the high ambitions and go beyond  from the human limitation and icarus ignores the reality of world. In this image we see the fall down of icarus and his legs seeing the water. The ploughman,shepherd and angler are portrayed in this image but they are busy in his work. Shepherd  gazing into the air away from the ship. Here in picture all are pointed out that the ignorance of people to follow  men's suffering. 

■ summarise article  discussed in the  class:

Marlowe and God:Theology of Dr.faustus
  Marlowe's plays that resembles the tragic acceptance of  other dramatists. The life of Marlowe is piece of orthodox  moralisam and love's art of his life. Marlowe's "Atheistic" pronouncements, the godlike and the christlike remain antithetical. We can imagine the Marlowe's art in God other than  the deity of 'Tamburlaine'and 'Dr.faustus'.
  
   Faustus claims that his doom was sealed by his blasphemous defines of God. Theology denies no trespass has irrevocable consequences. Who shrinks more from the wrath of God than from the terror of hell. why does not merit God's pity,when the audience is deeply moved, when the old man pities faustus. That Marlowe's God is a deity of  power, not love has been suggested by various  critics. Faustus  asks 

           "Who made the world "
           "Upon God that made the world "

   His  madel of imitation is the God of force and creative energy whom ' Tamburlaine ' first served and then challenged. 

● myth, psychology and Marlow Doctor faustus 
   
   Renaissance man with  his  one-sided intellect which values knowledge for the 'technological ' manipulative power of his  gives over thinking and other people. Because of his nature and faustus like icarus in the ancient myth. Certainly one way of seeing  faustus  experiences with figures like mephistophilis ,Lucifer a good and bad angel the mythical  ,Helen of  troy is as fantacy dramatizing conflicts  within his psyche.

  The psychological law of embodied in the common  dictum "Genius to madness is near allied "Jung found occurring again and again in the sense that the conscious and unconscious element of the psyche exist. Faustus who in one scene as "demi-god".mephistophilis explains hell to be ,as it were,a psychic shadow  that goes  with the damned soul  wherever it goes.

     The play's clear emphasis of the presence of these  confused  attitudes indicates the importance of faustian psychology. Marlowe also successful in portraying psychological situation of faustus. The positive ending of goethe's Faust was not possible in Marlowe's time faustus  is in aspects of modern tragedy and his  hubris like technological man and devil's have over him psychologically. 

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