Dr. Faustus and Eve’s Sins and Judgments
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SummaryMilton’s Eve and Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus were duped into spiritual doom in pursuit of knowledge, both seeking knowledge bought power at the expense of their spirit. Doctor Faustus sells his soul to Satan, exchanging it for knowledge of magic, while Eve ignores God’s command not to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge so that she may gain knowledge of good and evil. However, it is not only a thirst for knowledge, but the deepest pride and greed, which leads them both to spiritual jeopardy, for both seek not just knowledge to its own end, but rather hope to become godlike.
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- Faustus is sick of worldly knowledge.
- In his pride and avarice to become godlike, Faustus must reject divinity.
- Eve chooses the fruit over God because in rejecting God's divinity, Eve deifies the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.
- Both Eve and Faustus follow the same path.
- Not only does God show Eve mercy and Faustus none, but he seems even to be indifferent to Faustus.
- Eve and the rest of mankind with her are judged for her sins.
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