This presentation is about the tragic life of Dr. Faustus. Which shows that how he was falls down for his quest for the rule over the nature.

1. NAME : GOND ASMITA K.
ROLL NO : 2ND
PAPER NO : 1st (Renaissance
Literature)
TOPIC : DR. FAUSTUS AS A
TRAGIC
HERO
CLASS : (M.A.) SEM -1
E-MAIL ID :
asmita.gond414@gmail.com
DEPARTMENT : (M.A.) ENGLISH DEPT.
GUIDE : DR.DILIP BARAD
SUBMITTED TO : MAHARAJA KRISHNKUMAR

2. MARLOWE’S LIFE
• 1. (1564 TO 1593)
• 2. Birth place at
Canterbury
• 3. Educated at
Cambridge
• 4. Great scholar
member of
• university wits
• 5. Died at the early age
of 30

3. WORKS OF MARLOWE
I. ‘Tamburlaine’
II. ‘Dr. Faustus’
III. ‘The Jew of Malta’
IV. ‘Edward-2’

4. DR. FAUSTUS AS A UNIQUE
CARACTER
He was a central pivot
Has a towering personality
The play can’t conceive in the absence of
him
Was a supreme significant character

5. TEMPTATION OF DR. FAUSTUS
He loves power, fame and pleasure
Started to study ‘necromancy’
Wanted to be a God
To rule over the nature and the world
And so with it he get profit , delight and
omnipotence

6. CONFLICT OF DR. FAUSTUS
Arrival of angels persuade him
1. Good angel: “Faustus repent yet god will
pity thee”
2. Evil angel: “Though are a spirit god
can't pity thee”
 Involves in conflict

8. THE TRMENDOUS LOSS IN DR.
FAUSTUS
By join the hands with Lucifer he
disheartened the god
Slowly and steadily he looses all
good qualities
Not able to repent like an ordinary
man
Craving for the rescue
At last submit his soul to devil

9. DR. FAUSTUS’S LOVE OF
HUMANITY
 In spite of being magician he does
not harm any innocent person
During his meeting to doom he
keeps away to other people
He gives away all worldly property
to his faithful servant
Doesn't wanted to harm humanity
by his sins

11. GREAT TRAGIC HERO OF ALL
TIME
He neither sinner nor survival
According to ‘Goethe’ “How greatly it is
all planned”
Thus, he is great tragic hero of all time