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Zohra Fathima The role of omens as seen in Julius Caesar and Dr. Faustus The play Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe starts with a brief introduction by the chorus which gives the audience an insight into Faustus's life, up the point the story starts. Faustus like Caesar is a very ambitious man and like Caesar he too was born into a family "base of stock" from where he worked his way to the top. This growing ambition also makes Faustus' "waxen wings...mount above his reach". This brings to mind the story of Icarus who too ended up like Faustus. Faustus acquires knowledge in all the areas possible for the human mind till he decides to try out something out of the unknown, something which would make him as good as God or better than Him. This thirst for supremacy makes him so dissatisfied that he pays the ultimate price, a pact with...

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