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| 4efecb2 | Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight? | christopher-marlowe faust-legend faustian faustus marlowe pride icarus faust | E.A. Bucchianeri | |
| 8564f82 | ... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making. | mankind man mind philosophical grand-plans imprisionment imprison when-plans-go-wrong when-things-fall-apart christopher-marlowe faustian faustus marlowe sad-but-true plans planning faust | E.A. Bucchianeri | |
| 6fb2735 | (Marlowe's) Faustus stubbornly reverts to his atheistic beliefs and continues his elementary pagan re-education ~ the inferno to him is a 'place' invented by men. | christopher-marlowe faust-legend faustian faustus marlowe inferno disbelief paganism faust hell | E.A. Bucchianeri |