Anxiety of a Modern Man Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus (original) (raw)

Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus is generally interpreted as a typical renaissance drama representing the then trend of the early modern/ renaissance values of humanism, individualism and free play of mind, will to power, pleasure and knowledge. However, this paper attempts to analyze Doctor Faustus as Marlowe's presentation of the anxiety of the modern man during the transitional phase between the medieval to the early modern/renaissance period in the development of human civilization and as his critique of the excessive fascination to the modern values.