(11)." The Elizabethans were drifting in a sea of disagreement and disorder. .
Christopher Marlowe was sure to be influenced by these beliefs seeping through the learned society of the Elizabethan era. The "Questions [, the search for understanding of the human's place in the world and the ultimate goal of human life,] would be inescapable for the young Marlowe (Pinciss 26)." All the controversy around Marlowe may have caused him to question his beliefs and Mr. Birje - Patil states, in his essay Irony of Allusion and Vision of Apocalypse in Dr. Faustus, Marlowe was "at war with his [own] Christianity (17)." .
Although Marlowe would have been unable to publicly announce the absence of the conventional beliefs in his own philosophy, his uncertainty crept into Dr. Faustus. In the time of Dr. Faustus, theatre and religion did not mix. "Edmund Tillney, the Master of the Revels, ordered writers to revise their script according to his instructions ending in a direct threat "otherwise att your own perrilles" (Pinciss 13)." Edmund Tilney was to "prohibit the acting companies [from] handling "certen matters of Divinytie and of State unfitt to be suffred (Pinciss 13)." "Since [religion] was such a sensitive subject, religion was the topic above all on which monarchs and their Counsels wished to supress comment (Pinciss 14)." Had Marlowe just come out and, in Dr. Faustus, laid out the stark views of an atheist, he would have been persecuted. The Master of Revels had to license every script, and had his play rejected religion outright he would have been denied the ability to stage the play; and not to mention the lightening of his pockets. In the worse case scenario, had his play had really offended the government, he may have been punished with death for the penning of his play. Marlowe had to "serve [religion] up in a veiled or enclosed form. (Pinciss 15). .
Dr. Faustus, which "is without question one of the greatest Elizabethan plays (Pincombe 160)," personifies the spiritual puzzle of the period.
The Redeeming value of Moby Dick Moby Dick was, in the physical, written to tell a story of the ever-allusive white whale. ... Unknown to Melville, he had subconsciously told a story of redemption that contained the three elements of Christianity, atheism, and the searching human soul. ...
The juxtaposition between short, weak adjectives, 'tired, old and grey' and rich expressions such as 'radiantly beautiful' and 'exquisitely voluptuous' emphasise his vulnerability to temptation, a veiled allusion to when Jesus was tempted at his weakest, 'Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil'11. ... The theme of temptation is continued in Coleridge's exploration of original sin, as he often portrays Geraldine, through the extended metaphor of being a 'bright green snake'21, emphasized by recur...