Doctor Faustus: What Is The Price Of Power?
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- čas přidán 1. 07. 2024
- Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, the story of a magician who sold his soul for ultimate power, is one of the most influential plays from the Renaissance. Faustus is a sorcerer in search of secret knowledge. He has an aspiration to conquer the world and master life and death. However, once Faustus sells his soul to the devil and contracts the demon Mephistopheles to serve him, he doesn't accomplish very much. In fact, he wastes the rest of his life and fails to repent.
Marlowe's Faustus is an exploration of temptation, ambition, and the nature of self-deception. The questions it poses and the themes it explores are as relevant now as they were hundreds of years ago.
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Chapters:
0:00 Doctor Faustus & Power
2:01 Doctor Faustus Plot Summary
2:56 Faustus & the Ring of Gyges
6:18 Magic & Knowledge
8:43 Faustus Sells His Soul
11:20 Faustus Asks for a Wife
13:08 Two Texts of Doctor Faustus
14:42 Faustus & the Pope
15:44 Faustus & Emperor Charles V
17:15 Marlowe and Plato
19:08 Phantoms of Helen
22:05 Pride of Doctor Faustus
I love your videos, thank you so much for making them! You have an incredible way of making complex and unapproachable topics approachable, and you always bring some really interesting analysis to the table. Glad to have you on the platform:)
That’s very kind of you, Max. Thanks so much! I’m really glad you enjoy the videos.
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If you have everything it comes at the expence of inner growth I guess👍. Thanks for a thoughtprovocing video,best wishes from Sweden!
It's a sad case , if you don't take the bait and you out wit the devil , signed no contract you should be set free , you can't break the rules , or what's the point , I never sold mine and never will , stick your money ! Freedom !
If you know that Shakespeare was an alias, can you also accept that Marlowe was not Marlowe either? Could they represent the dark and the light "A's" of the headpieces? The Gemini?
Ooh, 24 minutes. Will watch later!
It's a long one! 😄
I didn't see a breakdown of the book The Republic...Please do it.... or I can go back through your videos...maybe I missed it.
Not sure I'm ready to climb that mountain... 😄
right ...I figured as much.... well at least you're honest... (in my George Carlin voice)....other youtubers don't do it justice....wanted your take....well....you have plenty here for us all... to stay busy for a lifetime, anyway. Thanks again. @@GreatBooksProf
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@@GreatBooksProf Please make more videos like, I could listen to you for hours
Thank you! More coming. I hope soon. It has been a very busy start to the semester!
Conquer the world and lose your soul
Except in Faustus’s case he doesn’t even get to conquer the world! It’s more like “Goof around for 20 years and lose your soul!” Bad deal all around. 😂
Imagine that one would conquer the world , in that moment the world would be worthless .
Another exemple imagine you would eat the best dish in the world , after eating it you would never come near to that experience so after it all the dishes would be worthless
@@adrianpc1369 Scary thought!
I would sell my soul to make Doctor Faustus come to an end. Yeah, the poetry was good, but talk about BORING. Ingram Frizer probably stabbed Marlowe because he proposed writing Doctor Faustus II.
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@@quercus8833 😂
@@quercus8833 Solutions to boredom in this thread include selling one’s soul and killing a guy!
Is decapitation an oak any different?