Keywords: Superfluous, Non-related, Weak Plot is considered loose if any part can be removed easily and it doesn’t affect the story. In starting Dr Faustus is a scholar who is unique and honored person. He leaves learning, adopts magical practice and bargains to be condemned in return. There are several incidents which don’t effect seriously on removing them. First, there is an incident about Faustus’s servant who gets some magic tricks and uses it for the sake of enjoyment. If this incident is deleted from the text it leaves no negative effect on the story. It means this incident is additional having no importance. Main theme is to leave learning and adopting magic on the cost of to be condemned in the end. Second, Faustus deals unfairly with the horse bargaining. This incident also seems not related and if it is removed there is no big affect on the story. To tell lie and play tricks for the sake of money have no connection with main theme of the play. Third, he disrupts the pope’s banquet by stealing food and boxing the pope’s ears. Again it is cheap act done by Dr Faustus who was a scholar of the time and people honored him as a learned person. He was master in some important subjects. He was not failure but a successful man of selected fields. Forth, Faustus is revealed narrow-minded who wants to take revenge on react by a knight. A knight scoffs at Faustus’s powers, and Faustus chastises him by making antlers sprout from his head. In furious, the knight vows to take revenge. Fifth, Meanwhile, Robin, Wagner’s clown, has picked up some magic on his own, and with his fellow he undergoes a number of comic misadventures. At one point, he manages to summon Mephastophilis, who threatens to turn Robin and Rafe into animals to punish them for their foolishness. In Dr Faustus Text is full of incidents and events which don’t damage main theme of the play. Those incidents can be considered part of loose plot structure.

Loose Plot Structure in Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

Keywords: Superfluous, Non-related, Weak

 Plot is considered loose if any part can be removed easily and it doesn’t affect the story. In starting Dr Faustus is a scholar who is unique and honored person. He leaves learning, adopts magical practice and bargains to be condemned in return. There are several incidents which don’t effect seriously on removing them.

First, there is an incident about Faustus’s servant who gets some magic tricks and uses it for the sake of enjoyment. If this incident is deleted from the text it leaves no negative effect on the story. It means this incident is additional having no importance. Main theme is to leave learning and adopting magic on the cost of to be condemned in the end.

Second, Faustus deals unfairly with the horse bargaining. This incident also seems not related and if it is removed there is no big affect on the story. To tell lie and play tricks for the sake of money have no connection with main theme of the play.

Third, he disrupts the pope’s banquet by stealing food and boxing the pope’s ears. Again it is cheap act done by Dr Faustus who was a scholar of the time and people honored him as a learned person. He was master in some important subjects. He was not failure but a successful man of  selected fields.

Forth, Faustus is revealed narrow-minded who wants to take revenge on react by a knight. A knight scoffs at Faustus’s powers, and Faustus chastises him by making antlers sprout from his head. In furious, the knight vows to take revenge.

Fifth, Meanwhile, Robin, Wagner’s clown, has picked up some magic on his own, and with his fellow he undergoes a number of comic misadventures. At one point, he manages to summon Mephastophilis, who threatens to turn Robin and Rafe into animals to punish them for their foolishness.

In Dr Faustus Text is full of incidents and events which don’t damage main theme of the play. Those incidents can be considered part of loose plot structure.