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Marlowe’s Mephistophilis is a brilliant but ultimately unsatisfactory creation because Marlowe cannot decide whether to make him a gleeful medieval devil or a romantically suffering fallen angel
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"Marlowe's Mephistophilis is a brilliant but ultimately unsatisfactory creation because Marlowe cannot decide whether to make him a gleeful medieval devil or a romantically suffering fallen angel." Discuss the presentation of Mephistophilis in the light of this statement. Mephistophilis is a striking central character in the play 'Doctor Faustus', written by Christopher Marlowe in the late sixteenth century. His role in this flamboyant yet tragic play is ultimately to aid Faustus' downfall from renowned scholar to foolhardy prey of Lucifer. However, Mephistophilis' motives are perceptibly ambiguous throughout 'Doctor Faustus'; he seemingly alternates between a typically gleeful medieval devil, and a romantically suffering fallen angel. Mephistophilis first appears in 'Doctor Faustus' in the third scene, when he is summoned by Faustus' experimental necromancy, as taught to him by Valdes and Cornelius. Faustus becomes intrigued by the notion of employing dark magic to supply him with what he most craves: knowledge. Mephistophilis first appears to...
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