Write a paper in which you think about the tension between rebellion and human desire in the play. Are they opposites? Is Faustus rebelling against rules or an entire system of power or something else? The author of Faustus, Christopher Marlowe, was accused by an acquaintance, Thomas Kyd, of being an atheist. Is it possible that the play celebrates Faustus’s rebellion and what it allows him while containing it in conventional Christian terms?
Is Faustus simply a narcissistic voluptuary or does he represent acceptable human aspirations (in his own time? in ours?).
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