The Comic Scenes of Dr Faustus
When I first began reading Dr. Faustus I did not even realize that there were comic scenes. Only after being told and after watching the movie did I realize that there were comic scenes. Many critics say that Christopher Marlowe did not even write these scenes, but instead say that they were written later by other playwrights.After realizing that there was in fact comedy in the play, I began to ponder why it was in the play. My first thought was that they were there to lighten the mood of such a dark and serious play. Any good playwright knows that you can't hold an audience's attention with hours of serious, deep and emotional content without also having something to lighten the mood. With this point of view I realized that it was very possible that Mr. Marlowe did not in fact write the comic sections of this play (I really wanted to believe that he wrote them), maybe a later playwright found that the play was too serious. The fact that I wanted Marlowe to be the author of the whole play (I don't like it when someone comes along a changes a piece of art, or that people say that someone changed it because it is just too good to be true) made me dig deeper to try and find something that sounded more sensible to me.
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place; for where we are is hell, And where hell is, there we must ever be. When I went back through the play and looked at after I was enlightened, I noticed that the comic scenes very much reflected the scenes with Dr. After I read this part of the play I began to realize the reason why the comic scenes are in this play. Faustus did in fact have a definite purpose, and not just to lighten the mood (although this very well could have been one of the reasons). But do you hear? If I should serve you, would you teach me to raise up Banios and Belcheos? Wagner. Indeed I do - what do I not! But fie, what a scent is here? I'll notspeak another word, except the ground were perfumed and covered with cloth of arras. Within the bowels of these elements, Where we are tortured and remain forever. How did these lines put the comic scenes into perspective for me? It made me look at the whole play in a different light.
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