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Post by Kipuka Theatre Admin on Jun 27, 2012 8:00:19 GMT -10
FAUSTUS. How am I glutted with conceit of this!
Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please?
Resolve me of all ambiguities,
Perform what desperate enterprise I will?
I'll have them fly to India for gold,
Ransack the ocean for orient pearl,
And search all corners of the new-found world
For pleasant fruits and princely delicates;
I'll have them read me strange philosophy,
And tell the secrets of all foreign kings;
I'll have them wall all Germany with brass,
And make swift Rhine circle fair Wittenberg;
I'll have them fill the colleges with silk,
Wherewith the students shall be bravely clad;
I'll levy soldiers with the coin they bring,
And chase the Prince of Parma from our land,
And reign sole king of all the provinces;
Yay, stranger engines for the brunt of war,
Than was the fiery keel at Antwerp's bridge,
I'll make my servile spirits to invent.
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Post by Tuan on Jun 29, 2012 9:22:33 GMT -10
I love this monologue. It's almost prophetic of the elite-class of today's society, or the western world in general. Instead of spirits, we call them employees, or shops who will have to fly to india, ransack the ocean, tell secrets of foreign kings etc on our behalf.
Does it make him a bad person to say this? If you've ever wanted a gold rolex or tiffany's pearls and enjoy reading gossip from OK magazine then that makes you similar. Human nature is greedy to no end.
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Post by Andrew on Jun 29, 2012 11:18:11 GMT -10
"They say right when they flood the house and they tear it to shreds that... destruction is a form of creation, so the fact that they burn the money is ironic. They just want to see what happens when they tear the world apart. They want to change things."
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Post by Lani on Jun 30, 2012 7:06:27 GMT -10
As much as people would like to be able to place themselves on a pedestal and state that they would NEVER be like that and NEVER be greedy, the desire to "want" is just a part of human nature. If given the opportunity to command spirits to be at your beck and call to have whatever you want...I think that is a temptation that would get the best of most people. Well maybe except for that guy over there communing with the tree ~_~
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Post by Kaitlyn on Jul 2, 2012 5:45:59 GMT -10
I'm with you, Lani. We are defined by our choices-- and often our wants do get the better of us and we make selfish choices. And when you say yes to one thing, sometimes it's too tempting not to go all the way... and to want more and more... look at Faustus' list--you can hear the knowledge that to want so much is wrong in the beginning, but as he continues, his wishes grow bigger and stronger until he is practically drunk with temptation. As if he had to cloud and disguise his doubts with possible impossibilities.
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Post by Luca on Jul 4, 2012 8:32:21 GMT -10
What if we were all Faustus! What if the Law of Attraction is a proven fact! We can bring in our life whatever we want! Money, beauty, Fame? What if Marlow is saying is that we have all the power we want in us but most of us are just affraid to acknowledge it and to use it because then we might get scared! Having everything we want/desire is not happiness though! That is proven as well! Money doesn't not make happy.They made a study and showed that the income in the USA has increased for about 36% but people's happiness has not changed at all and according to certain researche, people are actually less happy today! We all struggle between desires/wants/needs and our own understanding of the effect we have on the world as human-devine being!
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Post by Tom on Jul 5, 2012 12:54:30 GMT -10
We are all hardwired with a irrational/hyper-rational mind. The Id or the instinctual mind requires instant satisfaction and strives for pleasure. When we are babies we are in a Id state of mind, but once be come into contact with the physical world restrictions are laid before us. These Develop into the Ego and Super Ego which are our moral values and appropriated needs. For us to choose what is morally right and morally wrong is dictated by our physical influences. Faustus from what I gather was raised in a very restrictive physical world. But though there were restrictions there were tiny slivers of freedom or knowledge that he grabbed a hold of. This human condition this Id fighting the ego and super ego is the struggle of faustus.
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