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    This document analyzes how the play Dr. Faustus reflects the spirit of the Renaissance. It discusses several ways: 1) Dr. Faustus' thirst for knowledge and power reflects the Renaissance value of knowledge above all else. 2) He challenges Christianity, as the Renaissance protested Catholic dominance. 3) He is an individualistic hero focused on his own desires, reflecting the humanism and focus on individual man in the Renaissance. 4) He wants to travel and gain wealth through exploration, as the Renaissance sparked exploration and trade. 5) He appreciates beauty and art, as the Renaissance acknowledged and advanced art.

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    This document analyzes how the play Dr. Faustus reflects the spirit of the Renaissance. It discusses several ways: 1) Dr. Faustus' thirst for knowledge and power reflects the Renaissance value of knowledge above all else. 2) He challenges Christianity, as the Renaissance protested Catholic dominance. 3) He is an individualistic hero focused on his own desires, reflecting the humanism and focus on individual man in the Renaissance. 4) He wants to travel and gain wealth through exploration, as the Renaissance sparked exploration and trade. 5) He appreciates beauty and art, as the Renaissance acknowledged and advanced art.

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    This document analyzes how the play Dr. Faustus reflects the spirit of the Renaissance. It discusses several ways: 1) Dr. Faustus' thirst for knowledge and power reflects the Renaissance value of knowledge above all else. 2) He challenges Christianity, as the Renaissance protested Catholic dominance. 3) He is an individualistic hero focused on his own desires, reflecting the humanism and focus on individual man in the Renaissance. 4) He wants to travel and gain wealth through exploration, as the Renaissance sparked exploration and trade. 5) He appreciates beauty and art, as the Renaissance acknowledged and advanced art.

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    BİROĞLU 1

    Esma Biroğlu

    Prof. Visam Mansur

    How does Dr. Faustus Reflect the Spirit of the Renaissance

    20 January 2016

    How does Dr. Faustus Reflect the Spirit of the Renaissance

    The Renaissance means re-birth or re- awakening, in other words it is the rejuvenation in

    the field of leanring and classical knowledge. It started in Florance in the fourteenth century and

    spread across Europe. The major aim was to discover the books of ancient Greece and Rome

    and study them again. Renaissance broke the darkness of medieval Europe and a struggle

    between religion and knowledge broke out. Finally the scholars became the victors.

    There are several crucial features of the Renaissance. The first paramount element of

    Renaissance was to value knowlegde more than everything else. As the drama opens, Dr.

    Faustus is a German scholar and has thirst for knowledge. He is not satisfied with literature, law,

    theolegy, history and medicine because they don’t give him power. He decides to master

    necromancy and chooses the black magic in order to have absolute knowledge and boundless

    power for gratifying his sensual pleasures of life. His thirst for knowledge, enlightenment, pelf,

    fame and might reflects the spirit of the Renaissance.

    The Renaissance protested the dominance of Catholic pope in Vatican. We can see the same

    thing in Doctor Faustus. He challenges Christianity and he takes the supports of the evil. He

    does not only show his rejection to religion by selling his soul to the wicked agent of Satan,

    Mephistophilis and signing a bond for twenty-four years with him but also he makes fun of

    Pope and monks in Rome.


    BİROĞLU 2

    The Renaissance focused on Humanisim. Humanisim was the output of the invigoration.

    Man who had questioning spirit and relish for life was in the center of the world. Human being

    was regarded a hookup in the chain of life. Renaissance Faustus is an individualistic and

    dominent type of hero. He doesn’t pay attention to others’ opinions or what the community says.

    Instead of that he wants to have his own thoughts and challenge others. He is peerless in his

    resolution on the sale of the soul to devil, turning a deaf ear to the heartfelt calls of the good

    angle.

    The Renaissance sparked people to travel and learn about new expeditions and discoveries of

    new continents. The more they explored new places, the more wealth theyhad. Dr. Faustus wants

    to “ fly to India” and “search all corners of the new-found world”. He wants to gain fortune by

    taking gold from India and pearls form oceans.

    A very essential Renaissance ingriendent was an acknowledgment of beauty and art. When

    Faustus becomes very competent , he wants to have a very charming wife and he chooses Helen

    from Greek mythology. Helen is known as the most alluring woman in Ancient Greece and the

    clash between Troy and Greece was fought for her. He wants to have paradise in her lips.

    Additionally, it is from the drama that we can notice that Faustus values art. The painters,artists

    and sculptures like Michael Angelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Rafael in Renaissance Italy

    changed the history of human civilization .

    By yearning for infinite knowledge ,lusting for limitless power and fortune,coveting for

    earthly pleasure of life ,appreciating of artistry and charm and revolting deliberately against

    traditional moralistic principles Doctor Faustus stands for the embodiment of the spirit of the

    Renaissance.

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