NAME : GOND ASMITA K.

ROLL NO : 2ND

PAPER NO : 1st (Renaissance

Literature)

TOPIC : DR. FAUSTUS AS A

TRAGIC

HERO

CLASS : (M.A.) SEM -1

E-MAIL ID :

asmita.gond414@gmail.com

DEPARTMENT : (M.A.) ENGLISH DEPT.

GUIDE : DR.DILIP BARAD

SUBMITTED TO : MAHARAJA KRISHNKUMAR

SINH JI BHAVNAGER

MARLOWE’S LIFE

• 1. (1564 TO 1593)

• 2. Birth place at

Canterbury

• 3. Educated at

Cambridge

• 4. Great scholar

member of

• university wits

• 5. Died at the early age

of 30

WORKS OF MARLOWE

I. ‘Tamburlaine’

II. ‘Dr. Faustus’

III. ‘The Jew of Malta’

IV. ‘Edward-2’

DR. FAUSTUS AS A UNIQUE

CARACTER

He was a central pivot

Has a towering personality

The play can’t conceive in the absence of

him

Was a supreme significant character

TEMPTATION OF DR. FAUSTUS

He loves power, fame and pleasure

Started to study ‘necromancy’

Wanted to be a God

To rule over the nature and the world

And so with it he get profit , delight and

omnipotence

CONFLICT OF DR. FAUSTUS

Arrival of angels persuade him

1. Good angel: “Faustus repent yet god will

pity thee”

2. Evil angel: “Though are a spirit god

can't pity thee”

Involves in conflict

THE TRMENDOUS LOSS IN DR.

FAUSTUS

By join the hands with Lucifer he

disheartened the god

Slowly and steadily he looses all

good qualities

Not able to repent like an ordinary

man

Craving for the rescue

At last submit his soul to devil

DR. FAUSTUS’S LOVE OF

HUMANITY

In spite of being magician he does

not harm any innocent person

During his meeting to doom he

keeps away to other people

He gives away all worldly property

to his faithful servant

Doesn't wanted to harm humanity

by his sins

GREAT TRAGIC HERO OF ALL

TIME

He neither sinner nor survival

According to ‘Goethe’ “How greatly it is

all planned”

Thus, he is great tragic hero of all time