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A Comparative Analysis of the Formation of “Nothingness” in Macbeth and The Tragedy of Dr. Faustus
ZHAO Shuai-zhi
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2022.07.001
The College of Literature and Journalism, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Marlowe’s The Tragedy of Dr. Faustus are important dramatic works of the English Renaissance. Despite the distance between their periods of creation, Shakespeare and Marlowe share the same background of social life, and in the same ideological and cultural context, the two playwrights coincidentally deal with the theme of “nothingness” in their respective works. The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast Macbeth and The Tragedy of Dr. Faustus, and to compare the similarities and differences in characterization and narrative techniques between the two works in exploring the theme of “nothingness”.
Macbeth, Faust, desire, curiosity, renaissance, nothingness
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, July 2022, Vol. 12, No. 7, 699-706
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