Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus is a play where a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge. Doctor Faustus, the protagonist, was a well-respected German scholar who had grown dissatisfied with the limits of traditional forms of knowledge and decided to learn to practice magic. Valdes and Cornelius, the two illustrious magicians taught him the black arts, and he began his new career as a magician.
Faustus using his magic summoned a demon, Mephistophilis, ordering him to go to Lucifer his master with the offer of Faustus’s soul in return for twenty-four years of servitude from Mephistophilis. Lucifer accepted Faustus’s offer and a deal was signed with Faustus’s own blood. When divinely his arm healed of the wound the words ‘flee man” appeared on it. Faustus was also reminded of the Seven Deadly Sins by the good soul to contemplate his act but he ignored it and committed himself to the pact with Lucifer.
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