This is also evident from the mournful presentation of chorus in the end. Thus, Marlowe gives a perfect moral lesson though the doom of Faustus.

So this was also the aim of all the morality plays. Thus Marlowe appears to be keeping is with the tradition of moralities, as he depicts the destiny of a man who denies God to be eternally damned. But Faustus surrenders to the forces of evil and is eternally damned in the end. Marlowe objectifies this conflict in the form of good and evil angles. Of course there is a constant tussle between the vice and the virtue in the mind of Faustus. In this kind of plays, Satan worked as the central figure of the play. They dealt with the conflict between good and evil forces, in the good was ultimately victorious and the evil was defeated. Hence, the general theme of these plays was theological. These plays were designed to present a dramatized guide of Christian way of living and Christian ring.

Morality plays developed later than the miracle plays in the fifteenth century. Faustus can also be regarded as a morality play because it is didactic and holds a moral lesson, however, it does not thoroughly match with the medieval morality plays because it also deals with the inner conflict of the hero in the play. Faustus has number of those characteristics that are found in morality plays yet it is not a thorough going morality play because, it powerfully reflects the spirit of the renaissance and Machiavellian ideas, an indomitable spirit of adventure, audacious ambition, a staunch faith in the powers of the individual and supreme yearning for limited power and knowledge and the enchanting sensuous pleasures of life. Faustus is an extension of the traditional morality play.

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