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Faustus and His Power     Faustus is a very determined and smart man. However, throughout the book you can witness a very interesting development of him and his desires. He is very ambitious to gain as much knowledge as he can, but to what expense? He starts out with a desire for more knowledge and power and says “O what a world of profit and delight/Of power, of honour, of omnipotence/Is promis’d to the studious artisan!”. This leads the reader to believe that Faustus is ready to use the knowledge that he gains in order to become a noble artisan, and I believe that in the beginning it may have been a truthful and honest statement to say that he wanted to use his power for the betterment of others and himself. We see an example of this during Act I when Faustus talks of all of the lavish things he will do like having the spirits “wall all of Germany with brass” and have them “fill the public schools with silk” which seems to be for the good of others. However, it soon ...

What Hell does to a Person     In Dante's Inferno, he is a perfect representation of every one of us who have become blind to our sinfulness and need for repentance. Throughout his journey through Hell, Dante expresses many different emotions towards these sinners, their sins, his own sins, and just Hell in general the further into it he gets. It is interesting to look at the way he progresses, or digresses( whichever way you choose to interpret it), throughout Hell and how it was a slow but steady change that Dante experienced and it was not something that he expected but it kind of crept in oh him while he was traveling.     Dante starts off just in the first few layers of Hell being quite disturbed by what he saw and felt sorrow and pity for these people. For example we read in Canto V that Dante feels pity for the people because he says, “the other wept so sadly that I fell for pity of it to a deathlike faint—and I dropped like a body stricken dead...

The Consolation of Loneliness     You used to always be here, but now as we go our separate ways and begin our new lives my eyes are filled with tears at our decision to part and go to different colleges. “You were always there, both day and night. You were always there, even after a fight. I always knew I could count on you, no matter what challenges life decided to throw, but then we continued to grow and grow”(me). For my entire life I have never felt alone, that is until we both grew and started lives of our own. I went off to college to start my career and you got married! I’m so happy for you, don’t get me wrong, but still this stage of life, is this first I’ve ever felt alone. You’re no longer here with me every day and night. You know everything about me. You are my best friend. However, life happens and now we are apart. Of course we are still just as close as ever in our hearts, but in reality we are miles and miles apart.     Now...