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What does the play show us about attitudes to sin and damnation?
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What does the play show us about attitudes to sin and damnation? The play deals with sin and damnation at the heart of Christianity's understanding of the world. The play shows us that Faustus' pride, which causes him to strive for knowledge, may have seemed admirable at the turning point in the Renaissance period, but that this pride and insolence to go against God makes him despaired of God's mercy. I n medieval tradition despair was called the "sin against the Holy Spirit", and was considered the worst sin of all. Christian belief is that after Adam and Eve were temped by the devil to eat the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge, God punished mankind because of this act of disobedience, he subjected the world to death and before men and women died they would go to hell. However, he sent his son Jesus Christ to show mankind how...
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