"Oh let this hour be
but a year,a month,a week ,a natural day.
That Faustas may repent and save his soul."
As part of my dramatics third component in class, I along with my group mates had to perform the play DR.FAUSTAS by CHIRSTOPHER MARLOWE.
We modified the play to suite us and you can read the entire script if you have the patience and time to spare athttp://giterature.blogspot.com
It was a great experience from the workshop at college to the understanding of the play ,dialogues and formation of each of our characters .I played Faustas along with three other friends of mine and the interesting part about my character is that he is nothing like me.I am in general a very loudspoken -talkative person while the character i had to portray was someone who was greatly repentant and always had to look miserable.It was a challenge but it helped me realise a lot of things about the play ,from the concept to the thought process that went behind the making of the play.
In a few lines , this play is about a man Dr.Faustas ,who longs to be delivered from all his doubts about the universe and when the devil offers him help he readily accepts.
So he sells his soul for 24yrs and leads a life filled with power,wealth and women and much more.
At the end when the time of death approaches he realises the seriousness of it all and cries out for redemption as he wants his soul to be saved from hell, to much of my personal agony he does die...the end
Faustas is condemned and is rewarded with damnation for all his wrong doings but I am not really convinced that he deserved that.
Although I do agree his means to attain his desires of gaining knowledge and power was worng in the course of the 24yrs of his life lead under the pact he has not been referred to as a cruel man or a murderer there is no evidence of him having caused any harm to anyone.
Doesn't religion and our faith always ask us to repent no matter how trivial or grave the sin be so as to be pardoned?
The "man" Faustas gave into temptations like all of us do ofcourse in different circumstances and went astray from his initial goal which was to attain wisdom and knowledge of the world.
But he did repent at the last hour so much so that he wishes to become an animal that dies and becomes one with the earth.
So did he deserve eternal damnation in hell ,if there is a place called hell???
Well if he did..then that vanishes the last drop of hope for the entire human race !
9 comments:
sins are punishable and sinners deserve punishment. realization and repentance on one's own sins may change him and prevent him from committing the sins again. but, he deserves punishment for his past sins.
if we are pardoned for our sins on our repentance, then we all would commit as much sin as possible in our lifetimes and made sure that we repent for them on our death beds. then heaven, it there is such a place, would be overcrowded.
i think the belief that sins would be punished is one of our major hopes.
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I personally dont believe in that 'sins getting forgiven on repentance' doctrine by the Christian faith. Hindu faith stands very clear in this case. You do a sin., you get 'bad karma'., and you've to suffer to release yourself from the karma you accumulated. There is no escape route. In fact there are some old Christian mythic doctrines (Gnostic) which tell the same thing.
I think that the concept of 'Sins getting forgiven on repentance' is flawed. Because., one sin that an individual does creates waves of effects all around him., and it is not justified if the person does not suffer.
sin bla bla
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@manasa: you glutton.. :P :P
u dont tell me u boogieman
You gotto... read.. understand... The Book... more clearly... dear!
anon: u mean the play well i have and my opinion stands unaltered
no..no.. not the play... what does, "The Book" mean?
Views the play...ummm... thats ok.. but then... your views on other things... well you would be clearer... if you read "The book"
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