The End

There are two different texts for Faustus, a A text and a B text. In the A text, the main difference I noted was that the devils entered on stage later. In the B text, the devils are on the stage during the whole final scene. Also the B text was a little more graphic than that of the A text.
To be honest, I don’t like the B text at all. Yes it would be more entertaining to watch but I like to give people chances and likes to see that final hope and the B text does not give that to you. Since the Devils are on stage the whole time in the B text, this gives the audience the impression that Faustus is damned no matter what. In the A text, the devils enter at the very last moment. This shows me that Faustus still had a chance to repent. It makes you wonder, will he repent or will he be damned.
Of course Faustus will be damned because he has been a fool this whole time. If I was Lucifer, I would have damned him a long time ago. As in my earlier post, Faustus just irritated me what he did with Helen, still I have to ask, why? And also another thing in class we discussed was Faustus’s use of powers. Faustus does not use his universal powers to it’s fullest. Instead he played tricks on people high in status like the Pope or low in status like a horse courser.
The scene of the horse courser represents and recreates the scene with deed between Faustus and Mephastophilis. Faustus takes the role of Mephastophilis in the scene of the horse courser. He becomes the tempter and tells the horse courser not to ride the horse in the water. This reminds me of when Mephastophilis told Faustus he doesn’t want to sell his soul to the devil. Well like Faustus, the horse course did not listen and rode the horse into the water. This is what Faustus is using his powers on. He is playing pointless tricks on random people and they aren’t even good tricks. Subconsciously he is recreating his life but with different people playing the roles.
What I found very interesting though was with the horse courser, Faustus played a joke on him but making the horse courser think that he tore Faustus’s leg off. This kind of gives a glimpse in the damnation scene. In the B text, it says that Faustus will be tore from limb to limb. Since the horse course scene represents and recreates Faustus’s life, it foreshadows that Faustus will be ripped limb by limb. And we find that he was.