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Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

    The tragic history of the Life and Death of  Dr.Faustus is generally known as Dr.Faustus ,is an Elizabethan tragedy which was  written by Christopher Marlowe.The play was directed by Mathew Dunster. 1) The play directed by Matthew Dunster for Globe theatre ends with this scene... What does it signify? In this picture wide wings of Lucifer represents the superiority of his evilness. At the end of the play we can see Lucifer with the wide wings which also suggest that after taking away Dr.Faustus’s soul he becomes more powerful than earlier he has. There is one another aspect also at the end of the play Dr.Faustus realizes that he chose a wrong path to satisfy his hunger of knowledge.  At that time he asks god for help and starts to regret but god is also helpless. Because of this realization he dies internally and that’s why Lucifer feels his own greatness or his victory over Dr.Faustus. So here in the conflict between goodness and ev...