Essay About Christpher Marlowe\\\\\\\S Play And \\\\\\\T

A Comparative Study of the Work of the DevilEssay Preview: A Comparative Study of the Work of the DevilReport this essayIt is true that the study of the devil or evil in general as apart of the world has intriguedman for centuries. This is mostly because it is something people don\\\ haveconcrete proof ofand is also considered taboo in our society. Yet, studies and/or storytelling on the devil and hisevil forces seems to have been apart of all societies since the beginningoftime. Such as,Christpher Marlowe\\\s play, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustas, written inthe 16th centuryand the modern day film, The Devil\\\s Advocate, starring Al Pacino and KeanuReeves.The devil in Marlowe\\\s play doesn\\\come to Dr. Faustas as himself ,instead he sendsone of his disciples named Mephistophilis. When Mephistophilis first comes toDr. Faustas hecomes as himself, a demon like creature that is not quite appealing to theeye and seems tofrighten or sicken Dr.Faustas. Dr. Faustas immediatelyasks Mephistophilis tocome back assomething more pleasant, such as a fransiscan friar. The devil immediatelydoes so. I assume hedoes this to please Dr. Faustas and to show him that with the type of powerhe possesses hecan appear to be or even change into whom ever he wants. This beingsomething that thedoctor can also achieve by giving up his soul. He also offers Dr. Faustasmany things such as,knowledge (something the Doctor can\\\ get enough of) and tells the Doctorthat he can basicallyhave everything he desires in exchange for his soul.Something very similar to this instance also occurs in The DevilsAdvocate. In thebeginning of the film Keanu Reeves is approached by a man( also a messengerof the devil\\\s) ina bar offering him a job opportunity in Manhattan and to persuade him to comehe offers him avery large sum of money. When Keanu arrives he is surrounded by all thematerialistic things hecould desire in addition to the power and acknowledgment he so stronglydesires. This is allonce again there to tempt him towards evil and persuade him to sell his soul.Another pertinant similarity between the 16th century play and the modernday film isthe chance that both characters were given to give it all up, leave the deviland regain their souls,yet the outcome is far different.In Marlowe\\\s play, Dr. Faustas is approached by an old man who tries toconvinceFaustas to leave the devil and regain his soul. Faustas declines this pleaand continues on thepath he already was on, despite the fact that he was beginning to doubt theactual rewards of hisendeavor. In opposition to the play\\\s character,

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a comparison of this play:a similar and far more interesting sceneone depicting the character as an old mena similar and far more amusing scenefurther illustrating the character’s personal journeya similar and far more amusing.“What is clear is that as they begin to leave this life before the film finishes, Faustas ande again seem to give in to this temptation, and in this way begin to give, and thus gain, control of their own lives.This play makes many attempts to show us Dr. Faustas as a character that is both in the real world and as a character that is a possible reality to. One of the many ways for us to see Dr. Faustas is through the play’s movie, as this show’s premise shows. For example, as it alludes to, the script has some very realistic and realistic elements to the play, like the fact that a man appears as a human-sized man that can be easily transformed by other people. For the sake of a scene of Dr. Faustas being transformed into the kind of human-sized guy that we know and are able to see onscreen, the characters are almost certainly humanoid, and the scene itself certainlydoes not feel artificial. But it does show that these human figures are capable of being transformed.Dr. Faustas was once considered a real character which is now recognized as real and has since become a recurring character in movies, even though he has become extinct.As I already mentioned, no true representation of Faustas is given within the movie, and much of the dialogue which was used in the early part of the film is much inadvisable in comparison to his face and his appearance. One of the most interesting features within the movie is the fact that Dr. Faustas