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Doctor Faust Christopher Marlowe's play Dr. Faustus is the story of the struggle of one man who is battling with himself over what he values most in life, and to what extent he will go to obtain his desires. There are two levels at which Faustus is in battle with during the play. He is in a physical battle with Satan, and he is in a psychological battle with himself over what is right and wrong. The battles over what are exactly good and evil and what a person values in their life are the two underlying struggles in this work. Faustus is a very educated and high member of society, but he was born in a lower class and has struggled all his life to be a wealthy person. He attains this opportunity to become wealthy when he learns how to call upon Satan, and he makes a deal with the devil to attain all the riches in life for his soul. Through out the play Faustus struggles with faustus, good, story, play, life, battle, psychological, over, devil, back, angel, wealthy, wealth, values, two, trademark, struggles, soul, satan, riches, person, opportunity, man, knowledge, himself, god, go, evil, dr, deal, bad, wrong, work, very, upon