Marlowe's Doctor Faustus as a tragic hero / subject matter of the play is aspiration and frustration / various stages of Faustus's damnation / Faustus's character in Marlowe's play "Doctor Faustus"
Question: Doctor Faustus as a tragic hero / the subject matter of this tragedy is aspiration and frustration / the various stages of Faustus’s damnation / character of Doctor Faustus Answer : Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe is a tragic drama of five Acts written in blank verse and prose. The legend first appeared in the ‘Faustbuch’ published in 1587. It was translated into English as The History of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus . Marlowe in his play followed such an outline of the story. Many critics have interpreted that Doctor Faustus is a genuine tragedy in English literature. In the other plays like Tamburlaine , The Jew of Malta etc, Christopher Marlowe had concentrated on the theme of ambition or aspiration. Naturally, Doctor Faustus as a tragic play is no exception. It is outstanding in its maturity and brilliance in the grand tragic conception as well as its execution. In Act I or in the opening section of the play, we se...