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The main page makes it very clear that the demons come for Faustus.
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* NightmareFuel: The description of [[FireAndBrimstoneHell the torments of hell]] and Faustus' monologue as he [[spoiler:waits for the devils to come and take his soul at midnight.]]
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* NightmareFuel: The description of [[FireAndBrimstoneHell the torments of hell]] and Faustus' monologue as he [[spoiler:waits waits for the devils to come and take his soul at midnight.]]
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* OlderThanTheyThink: Faustus claiming to be further from redemption than Satan himself isn't just a display of hubris, but it actually has some grounding in real medieval theology. In the ''Literature/MalleusMaleficarum'', the Inquisitor Heinrich Kramer writes that even the evil of Satan himself is "small in comparison with the crimes of witches"[[note]]"Witches" here encompassing anyone who makes pacts with the Devil, whether male or female, though usually women[[/note]], because Satan only rejected God's gift of creation, whereas witches reject both God's gift of creation ''and'' Jesus's gift of dying for their sins; and unlike Satan, they do so after having already had the chance to learn some of the ways that God punishes sinners.
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We have multiple Protestant denominations who have, as an article of doctrine, that the Catholic Church is the "antichrist".
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-->I'll burn my books! Ah, Mephistopheles --
* ValuesDissonance: Faustus' visit to Vatican City to punch the pope in the face was a farcical jab at the Catholic Church playing to Protestant England (the play comes only a half-century after Henry VIII's formation of the Church of England). To contemporary audiences where the Catholic/Protestant divide has become much, ''much'' less important, the scene has lost its sectarian value.
** Considering how melodramatically the pope reacts, today it [[CrossesTheLineTwice crosses the line twice]].
* ValuesDissonance: Faustus' visit to Vatican City to punch the pope in the face was a farcical jab at the Catholic Church playing to Protestant England (the play comes only a half-century after Henry VIII's formation of the Church of England). To contemporary audiences where the Catholic/Protestant divide has become much, ''much'' less important, the scene has lost its sectarian value.
** Considering how melodramatically the pope reacts, today it [[CrossesTheLineTwice crosses the line twice]].
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-->I'll burn my books! Ah, Mephistopheles --
* ValuesDissonance: Faustus' visit to Vatican City to punch the pope in the face was a farcical jab at the Catholic Church playing to Protestant England (the play comes only a half-century after Henry VIII's formation of the Church of England). To contemporary audiences where the Catholic/Protestant divide has become much, ''much'' less important, the scene has lost its sectarian value.
** Considering how melodramatically the pope reacts, today it [[CrossesTheLineTwice crosses the line twice]].--=
* ValuesDissonance: Faustus' visit to Vatican City to punch the pope in the face was a farcical jab at the Catholic Church playing to Protestant England (the play comes only a half-century after Henry VIII's formation of the Church of England). To contemporary audiences where the Catholic/Protestant divide has become much, ''much'' less important, the scene has lost its sectarian value.
** Considering how melodramatically the pope reacts, today it [[CrossesTheLineTwice crosses the line twice]].
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* NightmareFuel: The description of [[FireAndBrimstoneHell the torments of hell]] and Faustus' monologue as he [[spoiler:waits for the devils to come and take his soul at midnight.]]
-->I'll burn my books! Ah, Mephistopheles --
-->I'll burn my books! Ah, Mephistopheles --
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* HoYay:
** Mephistopheles attempts to dissuade Faustus from seeking redemption by telling him "[Heaven is] not half as fair as thou".
** A bit of this with Mephistopheles and Lucifer as well, what with Mephistopheles describing the ideal woman as being "as beautiful as was bright Lucifer before his fall".
** Mephistopheles attempts to dissuade Faustus from seeking redemption by telling him "[Heaven is] not half as fair as thou".
** A bit of this with Mephistopheles and Lucifer as well, what with Mephistopheles describing the ideal woman as being "as beautiful as was bright Lucifer before his fall".
