Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 17 AIL 1624 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Marlowe and the Overreacher
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The idea
Marlowe's protagonists want more than their position allows: knowledge, power, empire. Faustus sells his soul for knowledge and unit fourteen worked his last hour. The pattern is a period one, and unit thirteen's hamartia entry describes its mechanism exactly.
In practice
Wanting more than the position allows.
Where people slip
Unit thirteen named the mechanism.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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