The Seven Deadly Sins: Seen, Heard, and Felt Essay -- Seven Deadly Sin

The Seven Deadly Sins Seen, Heard, and Felt The play of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe concentrates real highly on ideas of evil. Marlowe uses many aspects of evil to show the downfall of the fair odd man, Faustus. Devices including irony, foreshadowing, and symbolism are used very effectively in the play to convey feelings of sympathy and remorse for Faustus. Actually seeing a production of this play would further assist in an understanding of hardly what Faustus was faced with in his moments of severe weakness. By actually seeing a rendition of what Faustus was faced with, members of the earshot can question themselves about what they would eat done if they were Faustus. Act 2, Scene 2, lines 115-117 is a very good designate to help an audience feel what Faustus was feeling and seeing. Script Doctor Faustus appears as a tall lanky man, with dark brown hair, which lies close to his head, and curls up at the ends. His moustache is trimmed close to his upper lip. Faustu s plays with the moustache a great deal during this mount. He wears a plain black suit, a white overdress shirt with a plain black necktie and polished shoes. He is adorned only with one piece of jewelry, a wristwatch. Faustus needs to be a man who looks simple enough to fall prey to the Devils plans. He can not look too wet or ridiculous either, because a man of either of those qualities would not fall into the Devils trap. He must(prenominal) look like an everyday sort of man in cabaret for the audience to be able to strike to him, and to place themselves in his experience, and define from the experience. Belzebub and Lucifer are tall, dark, lavish looking men. They have very strong shoulders and use them to make their appearances very solid and unwav... ... Sins. Explanation This version of the scene is set in the nineteen-eighties. This is done so a modern audience should be able to relate the sins more directly to themselves. If this was not done, consequently some m embers of the audience might not be able to relate at all to the plays messages. Many of the costumes used could not be applicable to members of other societies either. People living in Europe would not needfully understand the significance of a man dressed in untidy jeans and a t-shirt as a normal everyday flowerpot in many American homes. Hopefully some of the images used in this version of the play will serve as a wake-up constitute to those people who may be falling towards the Devil and can avert the bitter end that Doctor Faustus reached. Works Cited Marlowe, Christopher. Doctor Faustus. New York Penguin Group, 1969.