In addition to this, the questions addressed in Marlowe’s play are nobel universal questions pertaining to the highest order of considerations: the meaning of life and death, the quest for knowledge, the respective power of of good and evil. One clue to forming a literary stance on the question lies in examining his hesitations and second thoughts. Of course, quite often Faustus’ fatal flaw is said to be greed and irreverent disregard for goodness. Adam and Eve also fell to the punishment from the lure of knowledge. If he has a fatal flaw, it might be that he did not reckon the power of evil highly enough, that he thought that with omnipotent knowledge, he could free himself from the chains of evil he wrapped so blithely around himself. All along the way, Faustus has doubts and hesitations which speak for an integrity of his moral character. It’s hard to say whether Faustus had a fatal flaw in his character or whether he was doomed by a faulty understanding that lead to a fatally disastrous error in judgment. First, the tragic hero has a flaw or makes an error in judgment that leads to his own doom.
Faustus also represents a Classic Elizabethan tragedy.
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