Sea Fever 1) Who wrote the poem ‘Sea Fever’? Ans:- John Masefield wrote the poem ’Sea Fever’. 2) What was the favourite place of the poet? Ans:- To see the sea was the favourite place of the poet. 3) What do you mean by steer? Ans:- Steer means to control the direction of movement. 4) What was the colour of mist on the sea’s face? Ans:- The colour of the mist was grey. 5) What thing did not the poet deny? Ans:- The poet can not deny the call of running tide. 6) Write the name of Sea-bird? Ans:- Sea-gull is the name of a sea-bird. 7) Who wants to live a gypsy life? Ans:- The poet wants to become a gypsy life. 8) Write the name of the sea-animal? Ans:- Whale, a name of the sea-animal. 9) What do you mean by whetted knife? Ans:- Whetted knife means sharpened knife. 10) What kind of day does the poet prefer for siling? Ans:- The poet prefers vagrant gypsy lives in a sea-gull and whale’s way. 11) What does the poet do when the
Bring out the dramatic significance of Dr.Faustus's last soliloquy in Doctor Faustus . or The death scene of Doctor Faustus.
Bring out the dramatic significance of Dr.Faustus's last soliloquy in Doctor Faustus .
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The death scene of Doctor Faustus.
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The death scene of Doctor Faustus.
The unique Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe throws two thunderbolts of soliloquies into the first and last scene of the play in Doctor Faustus . The play reached the highest path of terrific tragedy of Faustus's life in the last soliloquy and called Doctor Faustus's last soliloquy. The play draws to a close with Faustus's final soliloquy in Act-5,Scene-2,which is supposed to mark the last hour of his life . Cities have often commented on how skilfully Marlowe uses rhythm to underline the passage of time in the playDoctor Faustus. It is always assumed that the character is talking to himself, but in truth he is addressing the audience gathered before him. In fact a dramatist has not the freedom of a novelist to elaborate or speak for his characters in detail. Hence this is the dramatist’s great technique to enable him to take us down to the innermost recesses of a character of his drama.
Now it is time to analysis the fear of Faustus when said,"And then thou must be dammed perpetually"(I-68). The sudden appearance of a long five - syllable word focuses our attention on it and alerts us to what it is that Faustus most fear : "An infinity of suffering".
This speaks his desperate and futile plea for time to stand still and Marlowe underlines the futility through the use of enjambment : "Fair nature's eye,rise,rise again,and make/ Perpetual day ; or ....a natural day.....".
This speaks his desperate and futile plea for time to stand still and Marlowe underlines the futility through the use of enjambment : "Fair nature's eye,rise,rise again,and make/ Perpetual day ; or ....a natural day.....".
Faustus himself grasps this : "The stars move still; time runs ; the clock will strike;/
The devil will come,and Faustus must be dammed "(II.76-77). Time really is the essence of this soliloquy,not only because the clock is ticking for Faustus, but because as we have seen,what most horrifies him is the prospect not suffering but of endless suffering. After the clock strikes the half hour,Faustus pleads with God to place a limit on his time in hell-:"Let Faustus live in a hell a thousand year,/A hundred thousand and ,and at last be saved". Only to come back to the awful truth :"O, no end is limited to dammed souls".
The devil will come,and Faustus must be dammed "(II.76-77). Time really is the essence of this soliloquy,not only because the clock is ticking for Faustus, but because as we have seen,what most horrifies him is the prospect not suffering but of endless suffering. After the clock strikes the half hour,Faustus pleads with God to place a limit on his time in hell-:"Let Faustus live in a hell a thousand year,/A hundred thousand and ,and at last be saved". Only to come back to the awful truth :"O, no end is limited to dammed souls".
One of the most striking aspect of the speech in the way it reverses the dreams of power and glory that Faustus expressed in his first soliloquy. In that speech he declared his desire to be more than human ,to be a ' mighty God' ,but now as he faces an eternity in hell ,he wishes that he were less than human. In his final soliloquy, Faustus's self-assertion spirit collapse into a desire for extinction
;his aspiration to divinity into a longing for annihilation as he seeks desperately to escape from "the heavy wreath of God"(I-86).
;his aspiration to divinity into a longing for annihilation as he seeks desperately to escape from "the heavy wreath of God"(I-86).
Does this final humbling of Faustus encourage a feeling of satisfaction that he has got what he deserved? That seems to be how the epilogue seen things as in the prologue,the chorus's greatness,but in essence it is issuing a warning the the audience tha his terrible fate is what awaits all those'for word wits' who ' practise more than heavenly power permits'. Yet it is arguable that the final soliloquy's powerful evocation of Faustus's agony, couple with its stress on the horrors of the never ending suffering to which he has been sentenced. Feelings of pity and fear might seem a more appropriate response to Faustus's end than the epilogue's moral,as tidy its concluding rhyming couplet .
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