After having a little cheeky look at Jenny's blog I have discovered that we are supposed to be looking at How does Faustus fall further in act 4? I suppose that means before I start to write this blog I should actually read this act, give me five....
Ok not going to lie, its late, I'm tired, want to go to bed so have just skim read it hoping that we will look at it properly in class. Please don't judge me Mr Francis.
From what I have gathered that Faustus has lost even more of his ambitions in act 4. At the beginning of the play Faustus seemed to have big ambitions to rule the world but in act 4 scene 1 he says 'I am content to do whatsoever your majesty shall command.' If he realised this is the way he would have acted after he had sold his soul, I'm sure he never would have gone through with it. This is because he hasn't raised himself in the world that much or reached his high ambitions. He's still doing what the Emperor wants him to do, serving him and his desires. His arrogance has also seemed to disapear as he seems pleased and satisfied to be beneth men and do there bidding 'I must confess myself far inferior to the report men have published.' When reading this line you think maybe he's being sarcastic but he does exactly what the Emperor asks him to do. This suggests to me Marlowe is showing that power isn't everything, when you have it you don't know what to do with it and so therefore you are better without it. I feel that Faustus probably would have achieved more without all this grand power because then he would have had to work to achieve his desires and dreams. However because it has all been handed to him on a plate it means he has been distracted of why he sold his sould to the devil in the first place therefore wasting the opportunity to fufill his desires.
Tis short and sweet but it's better then not doing anything :)
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