Emotion And Passions In Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus

“Was this the face that launched a thousand ships’

And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?

Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss

O’ thou art fairer than the evening air

Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars."

• Emotions and Passion:

Emotion and Passions are the most important arts of any literary work. Christopher Marlowe has used this technique very well in his play "Doctor Faustus". He showed emotion of lust and love when he talks about Helen of Troy.

Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss:

Her lips suck forth my soul, see where it flies!

Come Helen, come, give me my soul again.

Here will I dwell, for heaven be in these lips,

And all is dross that is not Helena!

Tragic Hero:

Christopher Marlowe's hero is a tragic one and they purely have the

He seemed convinced when he said

‘A sound magician is a mighty god’.

He has adopted the art of black magic then Good and Bad Angels appeared.

Both show the two type of thinking of the human beings. Good angel advised him to repent but Bad Angel convincing him to be master of it. After getting the necromantic knowledge he feels sorry and helpless. he said to the Mephistopheles "When I behold the heaven, then I repent, And curse thee, wicked Mephistopheles, Because thou hast deprived me of those joys."

At the last stage both Angels Good and Bad appeared again and Good Angel asks him to repent and Bad Angel forbid him by saying that God will punish him. Faustus is in a conflict

"My heart's so harden'd. I cannot repent".

The spiritual conflict occurs with the appearance of the Old Man who last came to guide him and warns him to repent but Faustus is in a conflict it shows in the following lines

Where art thou Faustus, wretch what hast thou done;

Damn'd art thou, Faustus, damned, despair and die.

But in the end, Faustus realizes his fault but he didn't repent and the forces of devil came. They snatched the damned soul and take him to the hell where he has to face the