My little passage at the end of a text was basically a summary of the B text; which I didn't know, so I just wrote a whole blog on how the passage was inccacurate and glamourising the story, but then someone kindly pointed out that the passage was all the B text so it was accuarate, just a slightly different story, so I don't have much time to write a new one so it's not amazing but you know.......
"The Devil, for his part, would agree:
-to serve Dr. Faustus for as long as he shall live
- to provide Dr. Faustus with whatever information he might request
-never to utter an untruth to Dr. Faustus."
However, the Devil lied. He claimed to serve Faustus, yet all he seems to provide Faustus with is a book. When Faustus asked for a wife, he recieved a "whore" instead, and Mephastophiles answers some of Fautus' questions vaguely.
So, is the Devil just living up to his expectations.
The bible says that the Devil is the "father of lying"
" there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it" (the bible)
So the Devil was already percieved a liar, so surely Faustus who "hath attained the end" of knowledge about religion would be aware of it?
I think its interesting that it says that Faustus would know that the Devil is untruthful and a liar.It makes you think that Faustus may have had different intentions than we previously thought and he may have known that Mephistopheles was never going to help him achieve his goals, which makes you wonder why he agreed to sell his soul.
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