ENGL 2100Y Chapter Notes - Chapter N/A: Human Nature
23 Feb 2016
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Week 16/ jan. 30 faith and intellect in sixteenth century. Doctor faustus (continued); background reading: from introduction to the renaissance and the early. How do these define his dilemma: the long soliloquy in act 5, lines 66-123 counts down the last hour of faustus" life. Could he be saved, even at this point in the play: in the prologue and the epilogue, the chorus offers an interpretation of the tragedy of doctor. Explain why you agree or disagree with this. Me-phasto-philis = me" means not, phasto" mean light. If the man cannot satisfy his wife he is given horns. Mephastophilis is doing all the work and faustus is getting the credit for conjuring up the knight and emperor. Horse-courser being like a used sales men. Human nature to be curious, if you tell someone not to do something they will most likely do it don"t sale it to the horse-courser, don"t put the horse into the water.
