1. Villains in Literature and Elizabethan Poetry
To the readers' surprise, Dr Faustus prefers the damnation, life full of misery and unhappiness, to free righteous Christian life. ... This agreement sounds rather strange (Marlowe 39), as it is senseless for a person to lose their life for the sake of power that is not eternal. ... As the agreement indicates, Mephistopheles returns and Faustus keeps his promise and signs away his soul; he signs the oath with his own blood and writes on his arm the words ˜Homo fuge' meaning ˜Fly, man'. ...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate