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Role of the Chorus and its effect on the audience, as seen in Dr Faustus and Murder in the Cathedral
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... The role of the chorus and its effect on the audiences as seen in the plays: Dr. Faustus and Murder in the Cathedral. The plays Dr Faustus by Marlowe and MITC by TS Eliot, both involve the Christian concept of divinity where God is the Supreme. In Dr Faustus, Marlowe has exemplified this through the protagonist, Faustus who trancedes from a scholarly person to a cheap trickster with devolved morals and character as the plot unfolds. In his ambitious quest for power and glory through forbidden knowledge in areas like Necromancy and association with Lucifer leads Faustus to ignore that Christian doctrine forbids any human to be at par with God. In doing so he deviates towards the path of corruption. In MITC, the protagonist - the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Beckett represents Faustus' spiritual counterpart. Where Faustus' open defiance of God and love of materialistic pleasures rule his heart,
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