Faustus' Aspiration

• R. M. Dawkins - "Faustus is a Renaissance man who had to pay the Medieval price for being one"
• Harold Bloom - "Faustus wants to reach a certain level of greatness and to assume Godhead"
• Charles Lamb - "Faustus wanders in areas where Curiosity is forbidden to go"
• William Hazlitt - "A personification of the pride of will and eagerness of curiosity, sublimed beyond the reach of fear and remorse"
• William Hazlitt believes that Faustus was not in fact acting to fulfil his own selfish desires, but as a martyr to collect knowledge for all of us 
• Edward Dowden - "Faustus' ultimate desire is to be surrounded with proofs and witnesses of the transcendent might of his own will"