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What does Marlowe’s presentation of Mephastophilis tell an audience about Sixteenth Century ideas of hell and damnation?
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What does Marlowe's presentation of Mephastophilis tell an audience about Sixteenth Century ideas of hell and damnation? In this essay I am going to explore different ways in which Faustus uses Mephastophilis. I am also going to be talking about the complicity of the play. I'm also going to look at damnation and talk in depth about Mephastophilis's character and the way he's presented to the audience. Mephastophilis first appears in Scene 3 and straightaway he makes it clear that he is there of his own accord and he's not there because Faustus has conjured him up "I came hither of mine own accord". Straightaway we can realise that Mephastophilis is a very strong character and will not be pushed around. Marlowe presents Mephastophilis to be a clever character who has affections and this would have been weird for the Elizabethan audience to understand as the devil to them was...
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