Doctor Faustus
by Christopher Marlowe
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- Paradise Lost
Our homeboy Faustus has an attitude surprisingly like Lucifer in John Milton's masterpiece, Paradise Lost. Compare and contrast time. - Prometheus Unplugged!
Faustus is a dude who thirsts for knowledge and in the end finds himself mangled. In the Greek myth, Prometheus, Zeus has other plans for knowledge with the creation of Pandora and her mysterious jar, and (surprise, surprise) everything still ends up mangled.