Doctor Faustus’s Psychomachia (Soul Struggle)

 

“Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast.”

 

Scene XVII, line 70, page 892

 

 

 

Wrong Choice                                                          Right Choice

 

Temptations

 

Proper Behavior
  • Unbelief

 
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  • Pride

 
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  • Impatience

 
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  • Avarice

 
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  • Despair (dagger-cf. FQ I.ix.29)

 
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Bad friends (Valdes, Cornelius)

 

 

Mephostophilis

 

 

Bad Angel

 

 

Justice (or its imitation)

 

 

Vice, parlor tricks

 

 

Terrible death

 

 

Eternal torment in hell

 

 
Lucifer