“I’ll burn my books” : Doctor Faustus, and the closing emblem of a powerless man

• Main Author: Goh, Ondrea Xin Yi
• Other Authors: Wong Yeang Chui, Jane
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70389
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper will firstly locate the concept of power in the text, and demonstrate how the human desire for power motivates the acquisition of knowledge. That said, the presence of an omnipotent supernatural realm in 'Doctor Faustus' essentially means that the degree of agency possessed by M...