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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 ...