Makes use of the ending

Question 1

What does the ending reveal about Faustus?

Answer 1

His lack of change as a character

Question 2

Is the ending typical of a morality play?

Answer 2

No, the protagonist would usually be saved in a morality play

Question 3

Why does Marlowe use the appearance of the stock character of the Old Man?

Answer 3

To emphasise the importance of pennance when attempting to repent

Question 4

The ending suggests Faustus’ true reasons for not repenting were…

Answer 4

fear which presents us with a tragic conclusion

Question 5

What do Faustus’ interactions with the Old man and Helen of Troy serve as?

Answer 5

A final reason for his damnation which rasies questions about the calvinistic interpretation of the play

Question 6

The ending creates…

Answer 6

A dramatic and emphatic conclusion that emphasises the moral of the play and warns against turning against God during a time of religious questionning

Question 7

‘Who are at supper with…

Answer 7

such belly-cheer’

Question 8

‘To guide…’

Answer 8

thy steps unto the way of life’

Question 9

‘Break…’

Answer 9

‘heart, drop blood and mingle it with tears’

Question 10

‘i see…’

Answer 10

an angel hovers over thy head’

Question 11

‘Revolt…’

Answer 11

or i’ll piecemeal tear thy flesh’

Question 12

‘Torment, …

Answer 12

sweet friend, that base and crooked age’

Question 13

‘our…’

Answer 13

hell affords

Question 14

‘His faith…

Answer 14

is great. I cannot touch his soul’

Question 15

‘Her lips..’

Answer 15

suck forth my soul’

Question 16

‘As in the furnace..’

Answer 16

God shall try my faith’

Question 17

‘O, he stays…

Answer 17

my tongue! I would lift up my hands, but see, they hold them’

Question 18

‘but the devil…

Answer 18

threatened to tear my in pieces’

Question 19

‘one bare…

Answer 19

hour to live

Question 20

‘Ah, half…

Answer 20

the hour is past’

Question 21

‘Oh, it strikes,…

Answer 21

it strikes

Question 22

‘Stand…

Answer 22

still you evermoving spheres of heaven’

Question 23

‘Mountains and..

Answer 23

hills, come, come and fall on me’

Question 24

‘Now draw up…

Answer 24

Faustus like a foggy mist’

Question 25

'See where....

Answer 25

Christ's blood streams'

Question 26

'O, spare...

Answer 26

me Lucifer'

Question 27

'Curst be the...

Answer 27

parents that endangered me! No, Faustus, curse thyself. Curse Lucifer'

Question 28

'Let Faustus...

Answer 28

live in a thousand years, A hundered thousand, and at last be saved'

Question 29

What are Faustus' final words in the play?

Answer 29

'I'll burn my books. Ah Mephistopheles!'

Question 30

'Cut is the...

Answer 30

branch that might have grown full straight'

Question 31

Analyse 'break heart, drop blood, and mingle it with tears'

Answer 31

Tricolon of verbs to show that Faustus must take deliberate action to be redeemed. Although, the minimalist verbs suggest the simplicity of the actions F must do to repent

Question 32

Analyse 'guide thy steps unto the way of life'

Answer 32

Stock character of redeemer provides a path to forgiveness for Faustus

Question 33

Analyse 'with greatest torments that our hell affords'

Answer 33

Faustus accepts his fate that he can not be saved after reaffirming the contract. He is no longer disillusioned

Question 34

Quotation from 5.2 showing Faustus' calvinist mindset?

Answer 34

'for nothing can rescue me'

Question 35

Quotation showing Faustus attempting to gain control through the use of imperitives in his final hours

Answer 35

'stand still you evermoving spheres of heaven'

Question 36

Quotation showing Faustus bargaining the terms of the contract

Answer 36

'Let Faustus live in a thousand years'