04-10-2006, 04:10 AM
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Old man in Dr. Faustus
Do you think the old man in Dr. faustus is the voice of his conscience...Or the old Man is a minor character That Marlowe used as an external voice of people around Faustus
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05-17-2006, 10:03 PM
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Well, I'm having it this semester, I'm reading the act 1.
I'll reply as soon as I read it. BTW: I'm from Jordan and arabian as I see from your profile 
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06-02-2006, 11:35 AM
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Good luck Morad in studying it ..and enjoy it...i really enjoyed reading Dr faustus
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09-14-2008, 07:55 AM
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We see the Good angel and the Bad angel in the play as being the projections of Faustus' own psychological state. Towards the end, the old man seems to enter the play in place of the angels. However, interestingly, when the two angels appear again, they seem to be saying the same thing. Even the good angel now says that faustus is damned and will go to hell and all that. If we believe in the christian doctrine of all-benevolent God, there is still scope for faustus' redemption. However, The good angel doesn't seem to uphold this.
I see this as another instance that validates seeing the two angels as faustus's wavering conscience. Faustus totally believes that he is damned and beyond God's mercy. And the good angel reiterates this. And the old man, the new voice of good is distinguished from the angels. he is not the third angel or something like that but a man and an old one at that. I think that he does represent a part of Fustus' conscience, but a part which is no longer a part of the whole. It is detached and shrivelled. also, it does not register itself in faustus' mind. All he can do is stand by and watch faustus participate in his own damnation. i see the old man as the 'good' part of faustus' conscience that Faustus himself, perhaps unaware has ousted.
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