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To be, or not to be: what a question!E.a. Bucchianeri
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.. Faustus .. dared to confirm he had advanced beyond the level of a scarlet sinner – he was a conscious follower of the Prince of Darkness. The fact he could publicly project an Antichrist image with pride, having no fear of reprisal, and his seeming diabolical art of escaping all punishment when others who were considered heretics had burned at the stake for less, would certainly signal that an unnatural individual walked in their midst. It is true in many respects he assumed the role of the charlatan, yet how apropos, considering his willingness to follow his ‘brother-in-law’ known as the Father of Lies and deception.E.a. Bucchianeri
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... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.E.a. Bucchianeri
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(Marlowe's) Faustus stubbornly reverts to his atheistic beliefs and continues his elementary pagan re-education ~ the inferno to him is a 'place' invented by men.E.a. Bucchianeri
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Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?E.a. Bucchianeri