Andrew Duxfield

Cards (4)

  • Andrew Duxfield - "Faustus is doomed to failure by the persistently ambivalent world in which he exists” 
  • Andrew Duxfield - "In his arrogant pride we have hamartia ... and in the agonised final soliloquy there seems to be a clear example of anagnorisis"
  • Andrew Duxfield discusses how Faustus is doomed due to the World being ambivalent (uncertainty) and lacing knowledge (link to the idea of Promethean Figure)
  • Andrew Duxfield also discusses how Faustus' hamartia and final soliloquy is a clear example of Aristotle's Anagnorisis (recognition of circumstances)