1. Comparison between Tragic characters
Hamlet and Faustus
Name : C Amrutha.
Roll No: 1.
Paper: The Renaissance Age.
Semester : 1.
Department : English.
M.K. Bhavnagar University,
Bhavnagar.

2. Heroes of the play are from
Hamlet
Denmark
Dr Faustus
Germany

3. The Tragic Heroes are hungry for
Hamlet
Revenge
Dr Faustus
Knowledge

4. Similarities between
Hamlet
Dr Faustus

5. Scholars

6. Spirit of Asking Questions

7. Believed in Christian Ideas

8. To Be or not to be
• In the play Hamlet, we see the tragic hero
constantly debating with himself about the
upcoming revenge that he has to take, as he
gave a word to the ghost of his father Late
King Hamlet.
• The inner conflict is always seen in the
character because, if he goes to take the
revenge as he promised to his father the, he is
going to break the other promise of keeping
his mother happy.

9. Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give
them all for Mephistopheles.
• When it comes to the play of Dr Faustus, we
see the scholar questioning about the existence
of devils and Hell although he signs a pact which
says that his soul will be taken away into heaven
after twenty four years.
• We see that the tragic hero also has a internal
conflict which provokes him every time when
Mephistophilis denies to answer his questions
whose answer is GOD. But, the very next
moment, he gets carried away with the worldly
pleasures shown to him.

10. Hamartia: the Error of Judgement
• One of the characteristics of a tragic
character is , THE ERROR OF JUDGEMENT.
The error made by the character leads to the
pity and fear in the audience which progresses
with Catharsis.
• Both the tragic heroes of Shakespeare and
Marlowe have made an error in their
judgement.
• Hamlet after knowing the murderer of his
father, should not have thought philosophically
and killed his uncle Claudious on the night when
he was confessing his crimes to God.
• But, he just lead this opportunity go as he did
not want the criminal to go to Heaven with all
the misdeeds that he did.

11. Homo fuge!
• Dr Faustus thinks for several times
before signing the pact which says that he
has to give his soul in return of Knowledge
after twenty four years.
• Even after thinking, he makes an error in
his judgement and signs the pact and
hands it over to Mephistophilis.

12. Death

13. Presented by,
Chennur Amrutha Valli Reddy