... uses dreadful supernatural practices. As the play unfolds, a Good Angle and an Evil Angel come to Faustus after his thoughts about necromancy. The two angels represent his choice between Christian good conscience and the path to eternal damnation (Marlowe 8). To the readers' surprise, Dr Faustus prefers the damnation, ... the epitome of evil incarnate. Satan disobeys God, and the uprising led by him in the Heaven results in the fall of Satan and angels from the light to darkness and suffering. In the poem, Milton did not depict Satan as undisguised evil, since he did not want ... becaus...

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