Play: Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

Doctor Faustus is play written by Christopher Marlowe in 1592. It is the tragical history of Doctor Faustus. Major characters are Doctor Faustus, Lucifer, Mephistopheles, etc. Faustus is more conscious about getting the knowledge that’s why he learns black magic. He roams various parts of the countries. He sells his soul to Lucifer, master of black and magic. Lucifer sells Faustus’s soul to Mephistopheles for four and twenty years. But Doctor Faustus used his black magic to negative way and suffers from so many things. Lust and greed kind of sin enters into his mind. Here Marlowe describes seven deadly sins and Faustus also creates that type of image. At the end he realizes that his last day less and he begged for more life to Lucifer but Lucifer can’t do anything and at the end he dies.

Here Christopher Marlowe tries to convey message that knowledge is important for any person but path of gaining knowledge plays a vital role. Here time also plays important role because at the last moment he realizes that he done wrong.