Honestly, Faustus. After all you've done, after all the pranks you've pulled and all the enemies you've made, you have to understand that in the end you got what you deserved.
And, of course, I side with the Good Angel. I really wish you would have changed your ways and looked back to God for guidance in order to be saved from the terrible life in Hell you promised yourself. However, the fact that you didn't, at least not until your very panicked pleas during the last hour of your life on earth before the devils took you, proved to me that you have no respect for yourself or anyone else for that matter.
Side note:
Can we just appreciate how wonderfully spoken and detailed the Good Angel and Bad Angel’s conversation (5.2, 106-139) was?
“O, thou hast lost celestial happiness,
Pleasures unspeakable, bliss without end.”
“The jaws of hell are open to receive thee.”
“There are furies, tossing damned souls
On burning forks. Their bodies boil in lead.”
“He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.”
So many wonderful quotes, one after another, that held me to the story, flipping page after page, and just think, “Wow, great word choice and imagery, Marlowe.” Brilliance like that deserves a little shout out.
In my opinion, Faustus is not someone who should be admired or respected at all. Making a deal with the devil is never a good idea, even if the original thought is to do something for the greater good. I think it's common knowledge: if the Devil agrees to it, it's not good. The fact that Faustus seemed to know this and still continued to make the deal, and treat everyone poorly afterwards for his own amusement, is not a sign of a good man. And then he just gave up. Multiple times he was told to repent, to change his ways so that we could be saved, and he did absolutely nothing. He just whined and cried that it was “too late”. I don't understand: how someone can just give up so easily like that? This is your future, man. Don't just allow yourself to live an eternity in torment. Fix it! Anyone who just gives up on themselves like that is not a very admirable person in my book. And when he suffers at the end of the play, it is well deserved.
Like I said before, no sympathy.
I also have zero sympathy for Faustus. He knew what he was getting into, he had a guy right in front of him saying how awful hell was and that it existed, but he chose to ignore reason. I found the conversations with the Good Angel and the Bad Angel really amusing. First and foremost, I think it is hysterical that one of them is called "bad" angel. Last time I checked, angels were not supposed to be bad, but hey, I guess Heaven has it's issues too. But anyway, Faustus was given 24 years worth of opportunities to fix himself, but chose not to every single time. I really cannot have any sympathy for a person like that.
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