Influencing policy (training slides from Fast Track Impact)
Seven deadly sin in "Dr Faustus"
1. Seven Deadly sins in “Dr. Faustus”
Name: Kishan Kubavat
Semester-1
Paper No:1 (The Renaissance Literature)
PG Enrollment No: PG14101021
Roll No:13 Year:2014-15
Submitted to: Department of English S.B Gardi Maharaja
Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar
2. • Dr. Faustus is very famous play by Christopher
Marlow.
• Faustus was knowledgeable, still he wanted more.
• So he takes help of black magic- and Mephistophilis
comes.
• He tries to attract Faustus towards pitty things and at
that time seven deadly sins comes.
• According to Christianity one should avoid all this
sins.
Dr. Faustus
3. Seven Deadly sins
Envy
Covetousness
Pride
Wrath
Gluttony
Sloth
Lechery
4. Envy
• Feel jealousy from others.
• Object of such feeling ,
desire for the qualities of
another.
• In “Dr. Faustus” Envy
appears when he saw a
power of God.
5. Pride
• A feeling of honor and
self respect.
• Pleasure of taken in an
achievement.
• In Dr. Faustus Pride
appears when he feels
that he is more superior
than others
6. Wrath
• Extreme anger.
• Forceful , violent.
• In Dr. Faustus Wrath
appears when he is not able
to do anything in his life as
he was intelligent.
7. Lechery
• Sexual desires
• A lecherous act
• In Dr. Faustus Lechery
appears when dancer
who came from another
world.
8. Gluttony
• Excess in eating or drinking
• In Dr. Faustus Gluttony
appears when he wants
much more power and
position than others
9. • Laziness
• Aversion to work
• Slow moving
• In Dr. Faustus Sloth appears
when he got all kind of
knowledge and he feels
laziness from over
knowledge.
Sloth
10. Covetousness
• Greediness
• Eagerly desirous
• In Dr. Faustus Covetousness
appears when he wants to
get more and more and it is
sign of this sin.