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    Christopher Marlowe was an influential 16th century English playwright known for plays like Doctor Faustus. Doctor Faustus tells the story of a German scholar who makes a deal with the devil to gain supernatural powers in exchange for his soul. It is considered both a tragedy and morality play, as it follows Faustus' downfall due to his fatal flaw of pride and ambition, while also depicting the struggle between good and evil and teaching the audience not to be greedy or desire power over the world. The play uses techniques like portraying the seven deadly sins and struggle between good and evil angels to both tell Faustus' tragic story and impart moral lessons to its audience.

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    Christopher Marlowe was an influential 16th century English playwright known for plays like Doctor Faustus. Doctor Faustus tells the story of a German scholar who makes a deal with the devil to gain supernatural powers in exchange for his soul. It is considered both a tragedy and morality play, as it follows Faustus' downfall due to his fatal flaw of pride and ambition, while also depicting the struggle between good and evil and teaching the audience not to be greedy or desire power over the world. The play uses techniques like portraying the seven deadly sins and struggle between good and evil angels to both tell Faustus' tragic story and impart moral lessons to its audience.

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    Christopher Marlowe was an influential 16th century English playwright known for plays like Doctor Faustus. Doctor Faustus tells the story of a German scholar who makes a deal with the devil to gain supernatural powers in exchange for his soul. It is considered both a tragedy and morality play, as it follows Faustus' downfall due to his fatal flaw of pride and ambition, while also depicting the struggle between good and evil and teaching the audience not to be greedy or desire power over the world. The play uses techniques like portraying the seven deadly sins and struggle between good and evil angels to both tell Faustus' tragic story and impart moral lessons to its audience.

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    Christopher Marlowe was an influential 16th century English playwright known for plays like Doctor Faustus. Doctor Faustus tells the story of a German scholar who makes a deal with the devil to gain supernatural powers in exchange for his soul. It is considered both a tragedy and morality play, as it follows Faustus' downfall due to his fatal flaw of pride and ambition, while also depicting the struggle between good and evil and teaching the audience not to be greedy or desire power over the world. The play uses techniques like portraying the seven deadly sins and struggle between good and evil angels to both tell Faustus' tragic story and impart moral lessons to its audience.

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    ANS.

    Christopher Marlow was an English playwright of the Elizabethan


    era. He was greatly inspired by William Shakespeare and his plays were
    famous for the use of blank verse and their overreaching protagonists.
    His mysterious early death leads to the rise of several questions in
    people’s mind. He wrote many novels like the massacre, the Jew of
    Malta, Edward the second etc. His career lasted for less than 6 years
    and his life for only 29 years but in this time period also he achieved a
    lot of appreciation for his writings. He wrote many plays but Doctor
    Faustus was his one of the most popular play. The play is very
    complicated with some new literary techniques. It was a tragic play
    which was about the man selling his soul to devil for worldly trifles.

    Doctor Faustus is a German scholar, who is dissatisfied with his


    knowledge and tries to reach out to the devil to make a deal of getting
    the powers instead of the exchange of his soul and how at the end he
    suffers due to this. This is the play which is neither a tragedy nor
    morality play fully i.e. it consist both in it.

    According to Aristotle, the tragedy is an imitation of an action that is


    serious, complete, and of certain magnitude through pity and fear
    effecting proper catharsis. But Unlike other Greek tragic plays, doctor
    Faustus didn’t had high status by birth but was blessed with the
    intelligence. He was a tragic hero who falls to a lower position of
    society which was a result of his central flaw. His pride and ambitions to
    acquire knowledge and supernatural powers lead to all this. Also, called
    a tragic flaw or hamartia which leads him to doom. According to the
    Aristotle theory, due to the suffering of the tragic hero audience feels
    pity and fear which can be seen at ending which gains sympathy from
    the audience and also provokes Catharsis. It is very common in tragic
    plays.
    Talking about the morality plays, they are the plays which use different
    characters to teach many moral lessons to public in many ways. Dr.
    Faustus is one of them which had features of morality play like
    portraying good and bad angles, seven deadly sins, and appearance of
    Lucifer etc. It also shows the dangers of selling the souls of devil in the
    greed of gaining some power to control the world. But how all the
    power instead of making him a wiser man made him a foolish person.

    The conflict between the good and bad angles is a very common theme
    in this kind off plays and Marlowe also wanted to give message to the
    audience with the same. These angels show the emotional and
    intellectual instability of the main character. The angels were stood for
    the choice of the path of virtue or sin. They showed the struggle of the
    soul of a person dealing with the forces of good and bad in life. But
    here Dr. Faustus accepts the opinions of bad angle who says:

    “Be thou on the earth as Jove in the sky”

    Also, seven deadly sins like pride, wrath, envy, covetousness, sloth,
    lechery, and gluttony have been very well portrayed in the play and
    shows old mortality plays. And how at the end Faustus find himself at
    the edge and cries with sorrow:

    “My God, my God, look not so fierce to me!”

    So, by this play Marlowe teaches everyone that who tries to be a God,
    is always doomed to eternal damnation and misery. His ambitions
    made him suffer and taught everyone that positive and goodness
    always triumphs over lies and evils.

    Therefore, we can say that Dr. Faustus is both a tragic as well as a moral
    play who shows the downfall of the tragic hero in which his desires of
    powers and controlling the world but also teaches the lesson to the
    audience of not to be greedy and blind in the desire of some
    supernatural powers which would ultimately lead to eternal misery.

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