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“O I’ll leap up to my God, who pulls me down?

See, see where Christ’s blood streams in the firmament,

One drop would save my soul, half a drop, ah, my Christ….” (Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe)

Although Marlowe’s play “Doctor Faustus” appears to propose a very Christian meaning – that one should keep away from allurement and evil and repent if one cannot evade allurement and evil – its ending can be seen as deviating from conservative Christian belief in order to comply with the basic form of tragedy. In a conventional tragedy, as proposed by the Greeks, a hero meets his downfall due to a sequence of mistakes and realizes his mistakes only when it is too late. According to Christian belief, until a person dies, he or she always has a chance to repent and he or she can be rescued even at the last minute. Even so Faustus in the final hour realizes his mistakes and pleads for a possibility to repent; it is too late and Faustus is dragged off to hell. So Christopher Marlowe denied the Christian belief that until a person dies, he or she always has a chance to repent. Thereby it can be said that In the last hours of Faustus, he is aware of his perdition, but still he could do nothing about that.

Conclusion:

In the end, we can say that Doctor Faustus is the tragedy of such an ambitious man who wanted to have infinite knowledge and power. But this desire of his causes his downfall because man, by his very nature, is limited. Marlowe conclusively conveys in “Doctor Faustus” the hopelessness of the pursuit for indefinite knowledge and the inescapable consequence of breaking up with moral integrity.