Provide a close analysis of the following passage, discussing the dramatist's use of diction, register, rhythm and metre, imagery, tone and ANY OTHER dramatic resources which seem relevant to you. Also discuss why your chosen extract is important within the context of Dr. Faustus as a whole.
Scene 5
FAUSTUS My heart's so hardened I cannot repent!
Scarce can I name salvation, faith, or heaven,
But fearful echoes thunders in mine ears,
"Faustus, thou are damned"; then swords and knives,
Poison, guns, halters, and envenomed steel (200)
Are laid before me to dispatch myself:
And long ere this I should have slain myself,
Had not sweet pleasures conquered deep despair.
Have I not made blind Homer sing to me
Of Alexander's love, and Oenen's death? (205)
And hath not he that built the walls of Thebes
With ravishing sound of his melodious harp,
Made music with my Mephastophilis?
Why should I die then, or basely despair?
I am resolved! Faustus shall never repent. (210)
This essay will discuss the above extract, focusing
on the dramatist's use of techniques such as diction, register, metre and rhythm. It will show that this extract is a pivotal moment in the play and therefore necessary to the play as a whole.
Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe is a play which deals with, ...