Seven Deadly sins in “Dr. Faustus”

Name: Kishan Kubavat

Semester-1

Paper No:1 (The Renaissance Literature)

PG Enrollment No: PG14101021

Roll No:13 Year:2014-15

Submitted to: Department of English S.B Gardi Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar

• Dr. Faustus is very famous play by Christopher Marlow.

• Faustus was knowledgeable, still he wanted more.• So he takes help of black magic- and Mephistophilis

comes.• He tries to attract Faustus towards pitty things and at

that time seven deadly sins comes.• According to Christianity one should avoid all this

sins.

Dr. Faustus

Covetousness

Envy

Pride

Wrath

Gluttony

Lechery

Sloth

Seven Deadly sins

• Feel jealousy from others.

• Object of such feeling , desire for the qualities of another.

• In “Dr. Faustus” Envy appears when he saw a power of God.

Envy

• A feeling of honor and self respect.

• Pleasure of taken in an achievement.

• In Dr. Faustus Pride appears when he feels that he is more superior than others

Pride

• Extreme anger.

• Forceful , violent.

• In Dr. Faustus Wrath appears when he is not able to do anything in his life as he was intelligent.

Wrath

• Sexual desires

• A lecherous act

• In Dr. Faustus Lechery appears when dancer who came from another world.

Lechery

• Excess in eating or drinking

• In Dr. Faustus Gluttony appears when he wants much more power and position than others

Gluttony

• Laziness

• Aversion to work

• Slow moving

• In Dr. Faustus Sloth appears when he got all kind of knowledge and he feels laziness from over knowledge.

Sloth

• Greediness

• Eagerly desirous

• In Dr. Faustus Covetousness appears when he wants to get more and more and it is sign of this sin.

Covetousness