Dr._Faustus_Close_Reading

Dr. Faustus Close Reading Good Angel: Faustus repent, yet God will pity thee. Evil Angel: Thou art a spirit, God cannot pity thee. Faustus: Who buzzeth in mine ears I am a spirit' Be I a devil, yet god may pity me. (v.189-92) Scene 5 is when Faustus signs the contract that binds his soul to Lucifer. After signing his name to the paper, he talks with Mephistophilis and asks questions about hell, the earth, the stars, and heaven. He asks for a wife, but marriage is a sacrament and therefore forbidden by Lucifer. Faustus begins to have second thoughts, and announces that he will repent. The good and evil angels, or Faustus’ conscience, then enter for the second time in this scene and try to give him two different pieces of advice. As usual, the evil angel is right. Literally, the passage is saying that it isn’t too late for Faustus, and he can be saved if he will repent. But, being Faustus, a foolish man, he doesn’t exactly get it. In line 192, he seems to hear only the first half of line 190 and only the second half of line 189. It appears that he takes these two fragments of advice and butchers them into one. He faustus, good, angel, god, yet, word, pity, one, evil, time, second, repent, passage, now, line, even, wealth, think, soul, shows, saying, say, saved, just, definition, believe, because, angels, about, using, two, trying, tells, talking, spirit, signs, scene, says, nevertheless, meaning, marlowe, hell, heaven, hear, half, foolish, first, exactly, enter, doesn’t, different