Question ans of Dr.Faustus:A Play By Cristopher Marlowe


 
1.) The play directed by Matthew Dunster for Globe theatre ends with this scene (see the image of Lucifer). What does it signify?
 Ans... When Dr. Faustus repenting from the depth of his heart...we can say that the tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives it means at the end of play Dr. Faustus realized that he chose a wrong path and at the end by his grief he indirectly dies inside and because of that fall of Dr. Faustus, Lucifer feel his great tripumphal against him. Thus,here the last scene of Lucifer signifies his great triumphal



2) Is God present in the play? If yes, where and how? If No, why?
Ans...yes there is god in the play. 'We only need the light when it is burning low & we only miss the sun when it starts to snow. 'The same way here Dr. Faustus didn't need any God or heavenly power because he has a power of his knowledge and slowly he fall and in last scene of play when Dr. Faustus repeanting there we can prove that there is indirectly god is present in the play in the mind of Dr. Faustus...



3) 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?
 Ans..The Icarus image is used in the opening passage to characterize the fall of ... Both images set the scene for the fall of Dr. Faustus during the course of the drama.
 (The story of Icarus involves a bargain in which Icarus gets wings made of feathers and beeswax but is warned tot to fly too close to the sun. Icarus does and plunges to his death. Similarly Faust strikes a bargain but overreaches the extent of his powers and also, metaphorically, comes crashing down.)
 

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