"Doctor Faustus": The Contract Scene.

"Doctor Faustus" Act 2 Scene 1: The Contract scene

We will be reading this scene together. After we have, make notes together about:

How Faustus makes the contract

How Marlowe shows us his uncertainty about it

The role of Mephistophilis and the angels in the scene.

Creative Critical Response

Make sure you have a draft to hand in today. 600 words (max).

Homework

Make notes on the scenes from Doctor Faustus that we have already read. Focus especially on what we learn about the theme of "human desire" from them.

Follow links on the left for Marlowe/Doctor Faustus in The Marlowe Mall and make notes on the scenes we have read so far.

Image: The Fall of Lucifer from Milton's Paradise Lost by Gustave Doré.