DOCTOR FAUSTUS (1967)
WRITER:
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Doctor Faustus, a well-respected German
scholar, grows dissatisfied with the limits of traditional forms of
knowledge—logic, medicine, law, and religion—and decides that he wants to learn
to practice magic. His friends Valdes and Cornelius instruct him in the black
arts, and he begins his new career as a magician by summoning up
Mephastophilis, a devil. Despite Mephastophilis’s warnings about the horrors of
hell, Faustus tells the devil to return to his master, Lucifer, with an offer
of Faustus’s soul in exchange for twenty-four years of service from
Mephastophilis.
Before signing the contract, God warns him
but he listens the Lucifer and exhanges his soul. Armed with his new powers and
attended by Mephastophilis, Faustus begins to travel. He goes to the pope’s
court in Rome, makes himself invisible, and plays a series of tricks. He
disrupts the pope’s banquet by stealing food and boxing the pope’s ears.
Following this incident, he travels through the courts of Europe, with his fame
spreading as he goes. Eventually, he is invited to the court of the German
emperor, Charles V (the enemy of the pope), who asks Faustus to allow him to
see Alexander the Great, the famed fourth-century B.C. Macedonian king and conqueror.
Faustus conjures up an image of Alexander, and Charles is suitably impressed. A
knight scoffs at Faustus’s powers, and Faustus chastises him by making antlers
sprout from his head. Furious, the knight vows revenge.
As the twenty-four years of his deal with
Lucifer come to a close, Faustus begins to dread his impending death. On the
final night before the expiration of the twenty-four years, Faustus is overcome
by fear and remorse. He begs for mercy, but it is too late. At midnight, a host
of devils appears and carries his soul off to hell.
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