The Seven Deadly Sins

The most notable thing about "Dr Faustus" by Christopher Marlowe to me would be his encounter with the seven deadly sins: Pride, Covetousness, Wrath, Envy, Gluttony, Sloth and Lechery. Lucifer introduced the seven deadly sins to Dr Faustus to show him what hell is. The way the seven deadly sins introduces themselves when being asked are unforgetable. They introduce their nature to us as well as their name: Their character is what they are. These sins can be categorize in 3 different categories:

Perverted love: Pride, wrath and envy

Insufficient love: Sloth

Excessive love of earthy good: Covetouness, gluttony and lechery

Why do I say so? Perverted love means turning away from the right course of love. When one prides, wrath and envy, they do not care about other people, thus lacking in understanding and love. Pride because they love themselves more than anything; wrath because they cannot tolerant others faults; envy because they do not love themselves and hate others for having what they do not have. Insufficient in the other hand is the lacking of love. If one lack the motivation to love or to care about others, it will lead to being a sloth as being indolence. Lastly, even having excessive love of earthly good is a sin because by loving something too much, one tends to loose track of what is important or also temperance in accepting the natural limits of pleasure and preserves of the natural balance. Covetouness or better known as greed is the over obession on things such as being materialistic. Gluttony would be the over need to indulge, the love of being indulge while lechery a.k.a lush would be over desire of something. Usually lechery it is link with sexually desire but it can also be power or image that demises the self control and can suffocate the soul.

In away, while Lucifer introduces the seven deadly sins, it is can be said that Faustus himself had already meet with these sins himself but is unaware of it. This is because he himself had commited the 7 deadly sins before he was introduced to them.

1.Pride, as he saw himself in comparison to others in a competitive nature - he tells about his accomplishments and wishes for more glory from the audience.

2.Covetuoness, when he uses Mephastophilips to gain glory and knowledge.

3.Wrath, demonstrated Faustus impatience with the way he treats other people around him, be it demonic or human

4.Envy, as he is envious of other peoples accomplishments and wanted to exceed their glory.

5.Gluttony, when he evokes the use of dark magic in order to go beyond his earthly knowledge.

6.Sloth, when he was numb to his own consciousness; he no longer abides by what he does.

7. Lechery, performing silly tricks for his self indulgences.

It is stated that hell is everywhere because each one of us had commited at least one of the seven sins. Thus the statement of hell being everywhere is true.