Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
The Seven Deadly Sins
(2.3 105-185)

This extract is taken from the play Doctor Faustus, written by Christopher Marlowe, from line 105 to line 185 (2.3 105-185).
The action is taking place in Faustus’s study. Lucifer, Beelzebub and Mephistopheles are with Faustus. Lucifer and Beelzebub are here to entertain Faustus and to prevent him to think of god. He had doubts about god, hell and damnation so they are going to entertain him to make him believe to other things. How is this extract a reflection of Faustus’s personality?
Fist, we are going to explain that sins are in a way the Mirror of humanity, then, we are going to show the mise en abyme in this extract and finally we are going to underline the desecration of religion

Faustus is impressed but also pleased to have Lucifer in his study. The entertainment is a play directed by Beelzebub where it’s introduced the Seven Deadly Sins which are Pride, Covetousness, Envy, Wrath, Gluttony, Sloth and Lechery.
They represent what in the worst in the human nature, but also what is the most dangerous, indeed, they can lead men to their fall if they are too proud or to envious for example.
Moreover, the denomination the “Seven Deadly Sins” is showing us that they are dangerous; indeed, the word “deadly” is a derivative of the world “death”, so it means that these sins can lead men to death, to spiritual.
Furthermore, in the Christian religion, the sinners, in full who commit sins cannot have the salvation of their soul and they will go to hell.
Once more the sins are linked with danger. Besides, the Seven Deadly Sins are appearing as bad and repulsive; indeed, the first one to speak : Pride, refuses to talk more to Faustus if they ground is not performed and covered with a cloth “ I’ll not speak a word more […] unless the ground be performed and covered with cloth of Arras” l.122-124.
Here Pride is considering itself as superior to Faustus and considers that he deserves a