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Faustus’s great final soliloquy consummates the play in both its aspects — Morality and Heroic Tragedy — and each in its own way triumphs over the other. In fear we acquiesce in the littleness and powerlessness of man, and in pity we share his sufferings and endorse his protest.
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Brockbank, J.P. (1969). Damned Perpetually (1962). In: Jump, J. (eds) Marlowe. Casebook Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-89053-8_32
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