It has been suggested that Marlowe's audience would have seen Dr Faustus as a simple morality play. Consider this view using scene 5 as your starting point.

... It has been suggested that Marlowe's audience would have seen Dr Faustus as a simple morality play. Consider this view using scene 5 as your starting point. Dr Faustus cannot be seen as a simple morality play but as a play, which deals with and brings into focus complex issues and ethics regarding Elizabethan ideals at that point in time. Scene 5 has significance to the question of whether or not it is true that 'Dr Faustus' is a simple morality play. It is in this particular scene that we find Faustus ready to sell his soul in exchange for what was essentially a servant for 24 years. The Good Angel and the Bad Angel represent Faustus' conscience and present a dichotomy to him i.e. two opposing views to his dilemma of whether he should sell his soul or "abjure this magic, turn to God again". By choosing "that execrable art" of necromancy

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