The Tragedy of Dr. Faustus - Analysis of Doctor Faustus Final Soliloqu

The Tragedy of Dr. Faustus - Analysis of revivify Faustus Final Soliloquy Dr. Turks comments This is a good example of limiting analysis. The writer pays attention not only to what the character says, but in any case to his actions, or non-action, to make his conclusions about the character of Dr. Faustus. Doctor Faustus net monologue takes place during his conk mo to live before his deal with the tantalize expires and he is carried off to spend eternity in hell. At this point, he has turned down every opportunity to repent of his sins and call on God to save him from consummate(a) damnation. Faustus spends his last hour in greedy thoughts of ways to escape his impending doom. There is no repentance, though, and in the end, he is carried off to hell to spend eternity separated from God. Faustus soliloquy begins as the clock strikes eleven, pronouncing to Faustus that he has only one hour before his eternal punishment begins. Faustus knows his fate is at hand and begins his soliloquy by neediness that time would stand still so that midnight would never come or that the sun, Fair Natures eye, would rise again and make the day everlasting (XIII, 62). Faustus consequently moves from wishing that midnight wouldnt come altogether to merely wishing that his last hour would be stretched out to A year, a month, a week, a subjective day/ That Faustus may repent and save his soul (XIII, 64-65). He spends his last hour wishing for more time to repent instead of victimisation the time he already has to repent. After giving up on the notion of obtaining more time, he then decides that he will savor to God and acknowledges that one drop of Christs blood can save him. kind of of calling on God to save him, though, he turns his attention backbone to the devi... ...d for an escape when all he really needs to do is attend to upward. Lucifer does not send Faustus to hell, Faustus sends himself by not accepting the salute of salvation that God freely offers him right up until the end. In his final hour, Faustus comes to the realization that he is getting the short end of the deal he has made with the devil and how even all the power he had feature is fleeting in the face of eternity. Faustus final soliloquy is a down-to-earth look inside the mind of someone who stands on the threshold of invariably and knows his destination. After reading this, one should either rejoice that he or she will not have to face the same fate as Faustus, or recognize that he or she is walking the same highway and repent. Work CitedMarlowe, Christopher Dr Faustus in ed. WB Worthen The Harcourt Brace Anthology of Drama, 2nd edn., Texas Harcourt Brace 1996.