The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus and Satan's ParadiseThe quest for knowledge is always considered a double-edged sword. You can fall to one side where there are no limits except your imagination or you can fall to the other side, which is yelled at by fanatics for trying to act like God. There is never a third option in debates, but I would say most fall into that third option or middle ground. Doctor Faustus and Satan have many similarities, to the point that I wonder if Faustus was modeled after Satin. I will prove this by showing the stages through which the two beings passed in their stories leading to their unshakable tragedies. Satan is considered one of the most intelligent angels God ever created. It could be argued that his knowledge caused him to be prideful and disobedient. Doctor Faustus is also in the same boat. He is a well-educated man and seeks more and more knowledge to satisfy his endless mental gluttony. The belief that knowledge is never forbidden leads both characters to become entangled in black magic. By not setting a boundary, you create no line from which you can return. According to the OED def. 4a: knowledge is the faculty of understanding or knowing; intelligence, intellect. Def. 5b: states, which I think conveys the general idea I start with here, that knowledge is the extent of a person's mental perception; awareness. And it is true, in both stories, that they see this as part of their “manliness”. Both Satan and Faustus play with the idea of ​​redemption. Satan's part is difficult to see. If you take this passage: “But let us say that I could repent and obtain/by act of grace my former state; how long/Would he recall lofty thoughts, how long to unspeak them” (4.92-94). This shows in middle of paper...... that they return to their "native seat" once more: "For who can still believe, even after loss, / That all these mighty legions whose exile / Has The emptied Heaven will not manage to rise again, to elevate itself and regain possession of its native seat? "Doctor Faustus shows this at almost every step of his journey. Even at the end, when he goes to hell, he shows his pride. He thinks that his books of unlimited knowledge are more important to Lucifer than his soul. That would have been considered a sin of human pride in medieval times, when this story would have been read: "My God, my God, do not look at me so fiercely / Vipers and serpents, let me breathe for a while / Ugly hell, don't gape! Don't go, Lucifer!/I'll ​​burn my books! — Ah, Mephistophilis! » Doctor Faustus and Satan are both great characters and their parallels are fascinating. two of the fallen beings who didn't know when enough was enough..