Paper no.1-renaissance literature

1. DR. FAUSTUS AS A MORALITY PLAY
 Name : Parmar Krupa Jivabhai
 Roll no : 25
 Enrollment no. : 2069108420180040
 M.A.Sem – 1
 Year : 2017-2019
 Email id : parmarkrupaj25@gmail.com
 Paper no. : 1
 Submitted to : Department of English Bhavnagar

2. INTRODUCTION
 The Tragical History of
the Life and Death of
Doctor Faustus, is an
Elizabethan tragedy by
Christopher Marlow.
 Based on German
stories about the title
character Faust.
 That was first
performed sometime
between 1588.

3. INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
 Christopher Marlowe
also known as Kit
Marlowe.
 Born in 26th February
1564.
 English playwright poet
and translator of
Elizabethan era.
 Died in 30th May 1593.

4. HIS WORK
 Tamburlaine
 The Jew of Malta
 Edward – II
 Doctor Faustus

5. WHAT IS MORALITY PLAY ?
 A drama in the 15th and 16th centuries using
allegorical characters to portray the soul’s struggle
to achieve salvation.
 Something viewed as exhibiting a struggle between
good and evil and offering a moral lesson.

6. ELEMENTS OF MORALITY PLAYS IN DOCTOR
FAUSTUS
 Good Angel & Bad Angel
 Seven Deadly Sins
 Presence of mephistophilis
 Vision of Hell
 Allegory

7. GOOD ANGELS & BAD ANGELS

8. SEVEN DEADLY SINS
 The seven deadly sins are seen as warning to
abstain from evil.
 In faustus they are presented to show the delight of
them and to distract him from heaven.
 Gluttony
 Anger
 Envy
 Lust
 Greed
 Sloth

9. PRESENCE OF MEPHISTOPHILIS

10. VISION OF HELL

11. ALLEGORY
 A close and critical study of Doctor Faustus enables
us to go deeper and get the hidden truth or moral
allegory of the play that relates “the form of Faustus
fortunes good or bad”.
 It has a moral allegory of universal.

12. CONCLUSION
 Marlowe use of allegories and symbols in
Dr.Faustus is perfect.
 He exterrnalizes the inner desires of faustus that
eventually lead towards his eternal damnation.
 The good and evil angels, the seven deadly sins,
Mephistophilis , etc . All are presented brilliantly
which altogether make Dr.Faustus a great Morality
play.