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Unit 12: Doctor Faustus: Detailed Analysis of Seven Deadly Sins

Self Assessment Notes

Multiple Choice Questions:
11. Pride creates Doctor Faustus’ inability
(a) to repent
(b) to adjust in the new situation
(c) to dispel the Gospel
(d) to dispel the evil deeds.
12. Which of the following sin make Doctor Faustus to want more in his life?
(a) Pride
(b) Envy
(c) Gluttony
(d) Sloth.
13. Which of the following group is not Marlowe’s deadly sins?
(a) Lechery, gluttony, and envy
(b) Wrath, sloth, and pride
(c) Repent, sloth, and gluttony
(d) Covetousness, envy, and gluttony.
Fill in the blanks:

14. Doctor Faustus wanted more in his life and envied the ......... of others.
15. Glottony is temperance in accepting the ......... of pleasures, and preserves of the
natural balance.
16. Faustus demonstrates covetoudness in various scenes, when he evokes the ..........
17. Despite his agreement with the ........., Faustus is a free individual.

State whether the following statements are true or false:
18. Doctor Faustus wanted to command the demons to control the world to his accord.
19. Faustus displays Lechery in act one when he states he has not accomplished
greatness.
20. By making a deal with the devil, Faustus trades his soul for satisfaction, and a
greater field of study.

12.3 Summary

• The Seven Deadly Sins, when mentioned, conjure up ancient tales of dark deeds and dark
characters, like Faustus and Mephistopheles.
• Doctor Faustus supposedly sold his soul to the devil, the evil Mephistopheles and, in so doing,
made himself prey to all types of corruption and degradation.
• In his descent into wickedness, the ruined Faustus committed all of these deadly sins: pride,
envy, gluttony, lust, anger, greed, and sloth.
• These sins were considered deadly because they led Faustus, or any man or woman who
would commit them onto a path from which there was no return.

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