Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus tells a tale of a discontented scholar with an unappeasable craving for knowledge. Faustus personifies the renaissance aspiration for unsurpassable knowledge, yet he is fuelled by greed and the want for ultimate control. Faustus’ renaissance ideals conflict with previously held medieval beliefs of that era. Faustus in pursuit of his goal, “over-reaches,” disregarding Christianity, he sells his soul to the devil and ultimately meets a horrific death. Marlowe has crafted …showed first 75 words of 951 total…

…showed last 75 words of 951 total…the rest of us in life, pride and greed tempted him. The real tragedy is that Faustus did not believe that repenting would save him. Faustus's story displays renaissance ambition, virtue, and eagerness for intellectual advancement against a distinctively Christian ideology, which warned about the dangers of seeking forbidden knowledge. Greed and ambition are revealed as Faustus’ demise. Faustus shows how an educated life can have evil undertones when ambition is used for unholy purposes.