Christopher Marlowe | The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus | Important Questions With Answers

Christopher Marlowe | The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus | Important Questions With Answers

1. What do you think is the cause of the tragedy in Doctor Faustus?
2. Discuss Doctor Faustus as a Morality play. Or Elaborate the view that Doctor Faustus is a thoroughly "Christian" Document.
3. Discuss Doctor Faustus as an allegory. Or Bring out the symbolic meaning of Doctor Faustus.
4. Do you agree with the view that Doctor Faustus has a beginning and an end but no "middle" ?  Or Discuss the structure or construction or design of the play, Doctor Faustus. 
5. Write a note on the Renaissance character of the play, Doctor Faustus. Or Discuss Faustus as a man of Renaissance.
6. Write a note on Faustus's character as revealed in Marlowe's play. Or Show that Marlowe in this play is concerned with recording the mental history of Faustus. "
7. Trace the various stages of Faustus's damnation. Or "This play presents the fall and slow moral disintegration of an ardent, but erring spirit." Discuss. 
8. Discuss the appropriateness or otherwise of the comic and farcical scenes in Doctor Faustus. Write a note on the comic and farcical scenes in Doctor Faustus. Do you think the introduction of these scenes in the play to be justified? Give reasons for your answer. 
9. Conflict is the essence of drama. Illustrate this dictum with reference to Doctor Faustus. Or Trace the mental conflict of Faustus from the beginning till his last hour on this earth.
10. How does Marlowe portray the character of Faustus? Or What estimate of the character of Faustus have you formed?
11. Discuss Doctor Faustus as regards its construction. Do you think that it possesses what is known as organic unity?
12. "If Doctor Faustus is a great work, it is also a flawed one". Discuss