Analysis Of Dr Faustus

In any tragic play, or any other work of fiction, the author always attempts to offer respite to the audience by presenting comical acts or chapters. The literary phrase for such comic intervals is known as tragic relief. Tragedy or a solemn play is certain to build anxiety in the mind of the audience; and if this worry is not reduced from time to time it creates some sort of responsive sluggishness in the mind of the audience. The topmost reason of the insertion of the comical events is to offer a momentary easing of anxiety caused by the severe parts. Another theme is that there was also a insistent mandate from the side of Elizabethan audiences for such breaks. Therefore, dramatists had to present such scenes as the producers also required

This play unquestionably belongs to the tragic play, particularly the tragic past of Faustus himself, whose soul is taken off to his eternal damnation by devils at the end of the play. At the commencement of the play, Faustus is established already at the pinnacle of his worldly profession. He is already expert in all the present knowledge and talents. After receiving his degree of Doctorate, and learning all the significant branches of knowledge like Philosophy, Physics, Law, and Divinity recognizes that he is ‘still but Faustus and a man’. He feels that all are insufficient and none of the focuses can help him to become as potent ‘on earth, as Jove in the sky’. Faustus’ dream is to achieve super-human capacity, and he would achieve this power at any price even by peddling his soul to the Devil. Therefore, in the end, Faustus, with his boundless lust for supremacy, ultimately discovers with dismay how the splendor of his fleeting achievement bring about his fate and perpetual

The two points of view taken together ought to present a steady picture of life, but the effect is ill-fated in Doctor Faustus. The comic underplot is neither incessant nor is it creatively cohesive with the main plot. The tragic motive, the thoughtful choice of damnation for prodigious power, is brilliant. It proposes a philosophy which is accommodated by few people in the world; while the comic view connects to the multitudes of everyday people who are so hard pressed by starvation, poverty and modest concerns and needs that they would use magic and raise the Devil for resolving their troubles. Therefore, the comical underplot lampoons the action and cast of the main plot, casting caustic illumination upon the assortment of human arrogance and ambition. But, on the whole, the purpose is ill-realized, and Doctor Faustus might well have done without the comedic