![]() ![]() ![]() He would be visited by the seven saints/sins and cajoled into their antics. ![]() With morality plays, the focus became on giving mankind the choice to be more virtuous our villainous. A big departure from the traditional protagonists of medieval plays, saints or Christ himself. Plays that featured physical representations of the vices and virtues, but, most important, featured a main character who was presented as mankind. To combat this came the rise of the Morality plays. ![]() The acknowledgement of curiosity and its exploration was not immediately admonished, but the grip the Catholic church had on the people was weakening. An era known as Europe’s age of humanity due to its departure from the medieval world where the everything revolved around god. Faustus’s desire to seek more knowledge reveals a lot about the Renaissance era (during which it was written). The typical temptation concept, except that things are not so concrete. The hocus pocus magic that one makes to conjure up a demon.Īnd makes a contract with him where in exchange for an extended period of life, he will give his soul to Satan. His curiosity leads him to the darker arts. Faustus a brilliant doctor and scholar who, upon attaining much success, desires more knowledge. ![]()
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