Faustus The Reward Of Sin Is Death Analysis

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In the opening soliloquy, Faustus quotes scripture saying, “The reward of sin is death. That's hard...If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us. Why then belike we must sin, and so consequently die...What doctrine call you this? Che sera, sera, what will, shall be? Divinity, adieu!” (Marlowe 348). Oddly enough, the reason Faustus rejects religion becomes the reason he refuses to rectify his ways. He believes that eternal damnation is his fate. Even before the Doctor formally agrees to trade his soul he concludes that God will not save him saying, “The god thou servest is thine own appetite, wherein is fixed the love of Beelzebub. To him I’ll build an altar and a church, and offer lukewarm blood of new-born babes” (Marlowe 360), when simple logic, which he earlier rejected as lowly and simplistic, suggests that all he must do to escape this fate is not make a pact with the devil. Directly after this statement the personifications of Faustus' duel nature, the Good and Evil Angels, arrive on the scene. The fact that Faustus still has a conscience se...

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