“Does Evil Exist”

Introduction

Despite a tremendous distinction in content and contrive, Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe and Paradise Lost by John Milton share a large deal in widespread thematically. In both Doctor Faustus and Paradise Lost, the quest for information is not a noble pursuit with large pays at the end, but rather it verifies to be an entails to an end. In each work, information that is not exactly accessible in either of the narrative's world (academia for Faustus and Eden for Adam and Eve) is tempting to attain but is dangerous. The major individual characteristics in both Doctor Faustus and Paradise Lost strive to attain information and realize that they have been forbidden and this eventual profiting of information directs to a spectacular downfall.

In the case of Faustus, his information of the dark and arcane creative pursuits is appealing at the start, but by the end of his life he starts to glimpse the awful penalties that await him. The case is alike in Paradise Lost when the twosome flavors, the forbidden crop from the Tree of Knowledge and even as Satan quests after his own pattern of knowledge. The individual characteristics in both Doctor Faustus and Paradise Lost bear rough penalties as a outcome of their yearn to realize and understand that which is presumed to stay concealed and likewise in each work there is a large deal of lament and lamentation after the information is gleaned. The topic of forbidden information does not end at the parallels between Faustus and Adam and Eve, but is furthermore present in the case of Satan. Like Faustus, Satan's arrogance and require to gain information and individual power directed to his rank as a sad outcast and this amalgamation between the two texts is worth discovering as well (Blayney 112).

Doctor Faustus and Paradise Lost Comparison

In both Doctor Faustus and Paradise Lost, the individual characteristics take a large drop from perfection (or in Faustus' case, learning and respect) because of their insatiable lust for information that has been forbidden (Blake 26).

When contemplating the topic of forbidden information for this term paper and what it adds, Faustus is more like the Satan offered in Paradise Lost than he is like Adam or Eve. He has tried to outreach his bounds and in managing so he has accused himself to large misery and pain. In Satan's quest to understand more and better than God, he closed himself out from future glory and it is clear that like Faustus he laments his quest to understand more and better when he states, “The brain is its own location, and in itself / Can make a paradise of torment, a torment of heaven” which suggests that he has conceived his own torment through his likes, ideas, and actions. Even the Mephistopheles feature in Doctor Faustus appears to mourn his outcast state which was won as an outcome of seeking to understand more and be higher than God. The miserable demon nearly mimics the phrases of Milton's Satan, saying, ...