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3 pages in length. The Elizabethan age was a time of expanding confidence - and indeed bravado - among many Englishmen, a reality about which Christopher Marlowe was warning his contemporaries in Dr. Faustus. Indeed, the notion of individualism was gaining great momentum during this Renaissance period, where heretofore concerns of a social nature were reprioritized to a lesser importance beneath the desires of oneself. No additional sources cited.
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contemporaries in Dr. Faustus. Indeed, the notion of individualism was gaining great momentum during this Renaissance period, where heretofore concerns of a social nature were reprioritized to a lesser
importance beneath the desires of oneself. Faustus was, himself, a man of considerable boldness whose own perspective on life was filled with boundless opportunity for those who reached for its
potential. One may readily surmise how this fact, in and of itself, is a primary motivational aspect of the authors objective to warn his fellow compatriots of impending consequences
inherent to the prevalent ethos of the day. That Faustus places power above all else and is wholly incapable of realizing how such
skewed ambition serves to compromise ones life rather than enhance it speaks to Marlowes most critical message: Understand and respect ones social and individual limitations. To be unique within
a world of sameness is a quest sought by many people during the Elizabethan age; however, Marlowe illustrates how it is by way of such an objective that Faustus becomes
labeled as selfish and intolerant. This negative connotation of individualism - which is to maintain an independence from the norm - casts an even darker meaning upon striving to
achieve ones own distinctiveness and the role one assumes amidst social order. Satan begins to sift me with his pride: As in this furnace God shall try my faith,
My faith, vile hell, shall triumph over thee. Ambitious fiends, see how the heavens smiles At your repulse, and laughs your state to scorn. Hence hell, for hence
I fly unto God (Marlowe PG). A relevant phrase in literary circles that relates to the overall concept of Marlowes admonishing theme
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