"Doctor Faustus" Act 5We will be reading from Act 5 of "Doctor Faustus" to ensure you have plenty of material for your explorative study. After reading, answer these questions:
- What is the role of the Old Man in scene 1?
- What does the conjuring of Helen of Troy reveal about Faustus at this point in the play?
- What means are used to persuade Faustus to repent in this final act of the play?
- What does Faustus' final soliloquy reveal about his state of mind?
- What roles do the angles, the scholar and the chorus have in the ending of the play?
Creative Critical Piece
Spend some time at the start of this session going over your creative critical piece with a partner and discussing how you could improve your references to context and audience reception.
The Explorative Study
Time to feedback about the secondary sources you have found. Compare notes with a partner and then be prepared to give some examples of quotations you have found that you could use in your explorative study about the plays.
These should give examples of other readers' view about the plays that interest you.
You should also have time today to develop your coursework draft about 'human desire' in both plays.
Homework
- Redraft Creative Critical Piece by 3rd April 2009.
- Continue drafting Explorative Study to hand a draft in after the Easter break.
Please check previous posts on the website about the essay and its requirements below. Go especially to:
- Desire in "Hamlet" and "Doctor Faustus": Preparing the Explorative Study
- Preparing for the Explorative Study
Image: Helen of Troy and Menelaus, Louvre Museum Paris.
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