Doctor Faustus (Marlowe)

How does Faustus use the magical gifts that he receives?

How does Faustus use the magical gifts that he receives? How are the uses to which he puts his powers significant? How does his use of magical powers correlate with his earlier desires and plans? What do the uses of his powers suggest about his character or about the nature of unlimited power?

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Faust wastes his powers on dirty jokes and comic hijinks .Faustus does things like grow horns out of a knight's head and slaps around the pope's ears during dinner. The subtext in all these pranks is that Faustus is spending his powers not in the pursuit of knowledge but in clowning around. Did Faust sell his sole to merely be an invisible buffoon? Well, this essentially contributes to his downfall.

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