What is the importance of this section in the context of the whole play? In your answer you should include: The way the 16th century view of the world is presented The dramatic effects created by the good and evil angels. The language used by Faustus and Mephastophilis. This Scene is the longest, and perhaps most important scene in the play. So far in the play, the audience have been teased with the possibility of …showed first 75 words of 347 total…

…showed last 75 words of 347 total…the play, as it adds to the dramatic climax just before the entrance of the seven deadly sins, because first Faustus resolves on the side of good, however Lucifer and Beelzebub then enter to finally make Faustus fall onto the side of evil. His final gains in the cycle that Marlowe created is the display of the seven deadly sins, rather than heaven, the ultimate gain he would have received if he would have repented.