Assignment:
Christopher Marlowe and The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
• For your initial discussion post, you should:
o select one of the questions below:
- How does this play demonstrate characteristics of English Renaissance era literature?
- Based on Marlowe's play, does Faustus have freewill or is he predestined?
- What is the role of power in Doctor Faustus?
- How are cultural characteristics of the English Renaissance demonstrated in the play?
o write a well developed paragraph around 250 to 300 words that answers the question and includes:
- a clearly defined topic sentence
- at least one MLA formatted quotation from the assigned readings of literature for this module
- three or more sentences that explain how the quotation supports the topic sentence
o Be careful not to confuse editorial sections of the assigned readings with the literature (poems, stories, sermons, speeches, essays, etc.)