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Doctor Faustus

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 I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood
Assure my soul to be great Lucifer’s,
Chief Lord and regent of perpetual night!
View here the blood that trickles from mine arm,
And let it be propitious for my wish.

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      …      Above lines have been taken from Christopher Marlowe famous play Doctor Faustus, Act II Scene I, Line 60s.

Context

 It is a typical religious play, here it portrays the uncontrolled lusts of Renaissance man, although Dr. Faustus has acquired knowledge of all domains of life and different branches of knowledge. But still, he wants to earn more and more. To fulfill his desire of acquiring everything in the world he sells his soul to Lucifer for twenty-four years and he agrees with Lucifer by writing that with his blood.

Explanation

Doctor Faustus has already acquired enough skills in the subjects. The intelligence of Faustus suits a much higher and superior subject. So, he wants to say bid farewell to metaphysical philosophy and take to the study of medical science for which the Greek physician, Galen, was so famous. There is the judicious proverb “where the philosopher leaves off, the physician begins”. So, he asks himself that he must be a physician and acquire enormous health and try to achieve never-ending grandeur by inventing a magnificent cure for some incurable diseases. The highest purpose of medicine is health. The protection of physical health is the man aim of medical science. So, he questioned himself, “have you not already attained that aim?”
Doctor Faustus take a seat in his study, trying to choose what he should become adept in. Theology? Nah. Medicine? Nope. Law? As if. How boring. How about magic? That sounds downright delightful. So, it's time for Faustus to have a chat with renowned magicians Valdes and Cornelius they will know the ins and outs of the magical trade. His fresh teachers provide him the revelation and it's time for Faustus to acquire his magical channel, all on his own.
For his first trick, he calls the devil Mephistopheles (uh, does anyone else think this is the worst of bad ideas?) and asks ol' Mephistopheles to be his servant. 
But Mephistopheles serves Lucifer first and foremost, so Faustus makes Lucifer an offer he cannot refuse, he will sell his soul to the devil himself in exchange for twenty-four years of life with Mephistopheles at his beck and call. Okay, remember what we said about calling Mephistopheles the worst of bad ideas? We were wrong. Especially, when Lucifer is all, sure that sounds splendid. He decides to Faustus's snip as long as he ciphers his soul away in a text written and signed in his blood, which Faustus sharp yields. We are thinking maybe he should have pursued that law degree after all. Meanwhile, similar deals with the devil are going down among the town's peasants. Faustus's servant, Wagner, has already procured his own "devil familiar" in the form of an apprentice named Robin; now Robin and his friend Dick try their hand at illusion, with free booze as their goal.

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