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The Protagonist and Antagonist of Christopher Marlow's "DOCTOR FAUSTUS" The play "Doctor Faustus" is written by Christopher Marlow. It is now generally regarded as the first great Elizabethan tragedy. Marlow has based his play on the famous English translation of a slender book titled "The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Dr. John Faustus" published in 1587. The two main characters in Doctor Faustus, the title character and Mephistophilis have important and clearly defined roles in the story. Therefore, we will now discuss the characters of the protagonist and antagonist in detail. Christopher Marlow seems to have conceived the protagonist, Dr. Faustus more or less in keeping with Aristotle's conception of a tragic hero that the hero should be nobly born and more admirable than ordinary men. He cannot be morally perfect and should possess some defect which ultimately brings about his disaster. So in...

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