Something I found more confusing was a segment in Act III, Scene I in which Mephistophilis and Faustus visit the Vatican. Mephistophilis describes the Vatican as a place:
"Where thou shalt see a troupe of bald-pate friars,
Whose summun bonnum is in belly cheer."
That's a pretty convoluted way of calling the Catholic Church a bunch of bald, fat monks.
I agree that reading Faust is like reading a weird version of Shakespeare. I took Shakespeare last semester and it takes me about the same amount of time to read Faust as it took to read Shakespeare.
ReplyDeleteAnyhow, I don't really have a favorite line. But one did pop out at me... mostly because it was highlighted by the previous owner of my book.
"Yet art thou still but Faustus, and a man."
They only highlighted like 3 times in the entire play, this being one, and I feel like I'm always going to being trying to figure out why they thought those lines were/are so important.
@ Morgan: emphasizing his pride, I guess ... that he's just a man, despite being such a big deal professor.
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