This is my presentation on Christopher Marlowe's play Doctor Faustus.

1. DR.FAUSTUS AS A CHRISTIAN
TRAGEDY
Presented by- Divya Choudhary
Class- M A
Semester- 1
Paper no.- 1
paper name – The Renaissance Literature
Batch Year- 2015-17
Enrolment No.- PG15101007
Email id- choudharydivya400@mail.com
Submitted to- Smt. S B Gardi Department of
English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar
University

2. “Dr. Faustus” the tragic history of whole life and
death of Dr. Faustus is written by English
dramatist Christopher Marlowe. In this play
there is a simply story of Dr. Faustus who was
born of lower class parents , in which how a
common man sells his soul to the devil for
more power, knowledge and position in his
life.
The story based on down fall of Dr. Faustus and
Christianity.

3.  Major conflict between ‘Good’ and
‘Evil’
 Magic and supernatural Elements
 Quest for the knowledge
 Faustus’s Rejection to the ancient
authority

4. Elements of both Christian
morality and classical tragedy.
Believes in salvation.
Believes in Christian mythology.
“Seven Deadly sins.”

5.  Origin of seven deadly sins also known as a
part of Christian ethics is a branch of
Christian theology ,depends on the concepts
of “right” (virtuous) and “Wrong” (sinful)
behavior from a Christian perspective.
 If some one committed any of the seven
deadly sins they would be dam to Hell and
they become slave of these deadly sins.

6.  PRIDE :-
 A feeling of honor and
self respect
 Pleasure of taken in
and achievement
 Root of all sins
 In Dr. Faustus PRIDE
appears when he feels
that he is more
superior than others.
 ENVY :-
 Feel of jealousy from
others
 Object of such feeling ,
desire for the qualities
of another.
 In Dr. Faustus ENVY
appears when he saw a
power of God.

7.  LECHERY
 Sexual desires
 A lecherous act
 In Dr. Faustus
LECHERY appears
when dancer who
came from another
world.
 WRATH
 Extreme anger
 Forceful , violent
 In Dr. Faustus
WRATH appears
when he is not able
to do anything in his
life as he was
intelligent.