As the play unfolds, a Good Angle and an Evil Angel come to Faustus after his thoughts about necromancy. The two angels represent his choice between Christian good conscience and the path to eternal damnation (Marlowe 8). ... Satan disobeys God, and the uprising led by him in the Heaven results in the fall of Satan and angels from the light to darkness and suffering. ... Milton presents Satan an Archangel in Heaven, which is a high rank in the hierarchy of angels (Milton 195). Nevertheless, his pride, defiance, and desire to gain more authority than God makes him rebel against God and event...

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In all of the religions of the world, one of the primary questions that they are to answer is that of the meaning of life and life after death. As long as man has been self-aware and cognizant of the passage of time, he has operated with the knowledge that he, at some time as a mortal man, must end his life and die. He is naturally unable to ascertain the nature of his purpose in life and what may pertain after death, and soon begins to develop an explanation for what happens to him, or his essence when he passes that barrier. The early monotheists developed the most structured and defined...

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