| 1 | * AlternateCharacterInterpretation: How sympathetic is Mephistopheles? Is Faustus an AntiHero or a VillainProtagonist? |
| 2 | * HoYay: |
| 3 | ** Mephistopheles attempts to dissuade Faustus from seeking redemption by telling him "[Heaven is] not half as fair as thou". |
| 4 | ** 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". |
| 5 | * NightmareFuel: The description of [[FireAndBrimstoneHell the torments of hell]] and Faustus' monologue as he waits for the devils to come and take his soul at midnight. |
| 6 | -->I'll burn my books! Ah, Mephistopheles --= |
| 7 | * 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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