ambition gaining access to every scrap of knowledge about the universe represents Renaissance humanism, man is center knowledge, thirst rejects medieval
Dr Faustus → Learned scholar, brilliant | Ambitious but as he signs the pact he falls from grace and misuses his powers | Does not listen to good angel / others who ask him to repent and ask God for forgiveness but begs God when it is too late | Parallel → Icarus
Pride, power corrupts, tragic hero
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see also: icarus