DRM100Y1 Lecture Notes - Signify, Infinite Space, Tragic Hero
10 Dec 2012
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When we are in life, we don"t know if we are at the beginning, the middle of the end. Endings give meaning to our lives because they give them shape. Marlowe"s characters tend to be homeless, all places for them are alike -> linked to man"s interstate. Faustus wants to find the limits of hell, while mephistopheles says he is always in hell. Anthropologists have said that humans do violence in a way of marking boundaries. Faustus wants to give his life a clear and fixed shape. He seeks the limit of the 24 years to live. It is a limit he places and reiterates. Faustus fears that going to hell is an eternal condition, there is no end to it. In act ii, scene 1 he says no end is limited to damned souls . Each of faustus" farewells is an act of destruction (faustus turns away, leaves behind medicine, astronomy after doing this they no longer exist)
