Dr Faustus Act III:

Act III:

Scene I (and Chorus):

·         Faustus climbed to the heights of Gods to look at the stars

·         Intellectual investigation

·         AT the time faith refused to be challenged by science – Galileo was arrested under house arrest.

·         The stars are doing good deeds.

·         Contrasting Icarus links from the beginning

·         Faustus is being celebrated.

·         Faustus travels showing cultural importance.

·         M. is a physical presence and is a constant reminder of the pact – a connection between him and Faustus.

·         ‘Sport’ – Faustus now wants to have fun after becoming one of the most intelligent men in the world.

·         Sense of time = a day, eternally youthful?

·         Comical scene between Faustus and the Pope.

·         Shows his fall from grace more dramatically.

·         Mocking tradition

·         Signifies his fall completely

·         Fall from grace and fall from the deal.

·         Ridicule and blasphemy.

·         The friars singing are like the witches in Macbeth.

Scene II:

·         Slapstick mirroring – comic interludes.

·         “Enter to them Mephistopheles” – crossing over, gives them both more meaning – Dr Faustus dissent = less moral.

·         Robin and Rafe – acting like animals

·         Audiences are in an ambiguous – they are asked to condemn Faustus for his pact with Lucifer at the same time they are encouraged ti applaud him for playing practical jokes on a national enemy.