Dr. Faustus Essay - Pride, Insolence and the Fall of Doctor Faustus

Pride, Insolence and the Fall of Doctor Faustus As a highly revered individual - a doctor of theology who is also elusive in gravid arts, medicine and law - Doctor Faustus possesses limitless knowledge. Nonetheless, unfortunately the much people know the more curious, thirsty and greedy for knowledge they become. Thus, lacking to know more and therefore, gain supernatural power, Faustus creates his own fall through pride, insolence and child-like behavior - the by-products of the dominating id that overpowers the superego in this particular case. The supra excerpt was provided to recognise the student aware of the focus of the essay, the complete paper begins below ...Man builds towels of the spirit from which he may survey larger horizons that those of his class, race and nation. This is a necessary human enterprise. Without it man could not come to his full estate. But it is also inevitable that these towers should be Towers of Babel, that they should pretend to reach highe r than their real height and should claim a finality which they cannot posses, quotes Sylvan Barnet in his introduction to Christopher Marlowes Doctor Faustus (xiv). Doctor Faustus lives in such pretension. Due to Faustus extraordinary, celebrated, restless and insatiable mind that differs from the ordinary minds, the quote above stands as the basic premise for Marlowes play. As a highly revered individual - a doctor of theology who is also involved in liberal arts, medicine and law - Doctor Faustus possesses limitless knowledge. Nonetheless, unfortunately the more people know the more curious, thirsty and greedy for knowledge they become. Thus, wanting to know more and therefore, gain supernatural power, Faustus creates his own fall th... ...ioned by his immediate circumstances...He wants to be man. He is not content with his truth. He seeks the truth...His restless mind seeks to comprehend the heart and soul of all cultures so that he may not be caught within the limitations of his own (xiv). Works Cited and ConsultedBeddow, Michael. Thomas Mann Doctor Faustus. Cambridge Cambridge, 1994.Carnegy, Patrick. Faust as Musician A test of Thomas Manns Novel Doctor Faustus. London Chatto & Windus, 1973.Guerin, Wilfred L., Earle Labor, Lee Morgan, Jeanne C. Reesman, John R. Willingham. A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature. 4th ed. Oxford Oxford UP, 1999.Marlowe, Christopher. Doctor Faustus. Ed. Sylvan Barnet. New York Signet Classic, 1969.Russell, Jeffrey Burton. The Prince of Darkness basal Evil and the Power of Good in History. Ithaca Cornell University Press, 1988.