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Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus indicates the consonance or dissonance of two values of opposing directions: man-centered Renaissance humanism and God-centered medieval ideals. This paper explores the work from the perspective of humanism and the insight the author provides about it. Although the work follows the form of the typical Christian play, the morality play, it focuses on the choice of an individual rather than the duty of a group. Such a direction from a group-based idea toward an individual-based one features in Renaissance humanism, and its link to individualism relates to modern humanism. The meaning of humanism has continued transforming, distancing itself from Christianity. However, it needs to replenish itself with morality because it came to lack the morality that religion once provided. In his work, Marlowe points out the flaw in humanism as well as inevitable movement toward it through the hero’s life and death.
