Niccolai Constanza

Doctor John Faustus is a famous scholar at the University of Wittenberg in Germany. He knows philosophy, theology, law and medicine. He wants power, most of that, and he is willing to make a pact with the devil for get it. Faustus promises to give to Lucifer, the devil, the most important thing that he has…

His soul.

Mephistopheles is Lucifer’s loyal assistant,with his help all Faustus’s wishes come true. With he, Faustus learns the secrets of magic, brings famous people back from the dead, plays jokes on the Pope in Rome and makes his enemies grow horns.

Mephistopheles

Battle between God and The Devil

He is willing to accept and forgive Faustus's sins He wants Faustus’s

soul.

Who will win?

She represents Faustus's struggle to keep to his agreement to renounce God and unite with Lucifer: he asks for her after being tempted to call on God's grace; after being chastised by Mephistopheles; after desperately agreeing to renew his vow; after begging for mercy from Lucifer. He asks for her as a way to distract his mind from calling on God's grace.

Faustus has only one hour to live. He asks God to forgive their sins. He wants that has his soul fly up to heaven. He tells him that he is willing to live in hell for a thousand years only if he puts a limit to his pain. After that, Lucifer,

Mephistopheles and other devils take him by his arms to the hell.