LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Helen of Troy – Dr. Faustus
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Marlow’s Jew of Malta
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Marlow’s Tamburlaine
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None of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -After a wavering in his soul, Faustus firmly resolves to keep his contract with Lucifer and offers to sign another bond in blood. We must remember that Faustus has just seen the most beautiful woman in the world and desires her. Thus, he makes the second contract to assure himself of getting Helen as his paramour.
Detailed explanation-2: -Helen, then, represents the dangerous beauty of evil, the seduction of the past, and the desire for things pleasurable. Faustus’ desire for her, for the most beautiful woman who has ever lived, seems understandable (though not reasonable) to us, because we all have a little bit of Faustus in us.
Detailed explanation-3: -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! These lines come from a speech that Faustus makes as he nears the end of his life and begins to realize the terrible nature of the bargain he has made.
Detailed explanation-4: -“He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.” “Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will. “Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it. “Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.” “Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed. More items