As knowledge seekers many people will strive harder or try appropriate means to achieve there goal for further knowledge to the extent that bridges onto to excessiveness that reflects a deadly sin. Doctor Faustus is this seeker of knowledge who wants to find out more than is good for him to know. Faustus is a scoffer who gets a scoffer's comeuppance. His commits mortal sin and goes to hell for it. Dr Faustus deals with the ambition of the renaissance to cultivate an 'aspiring mind'. The Renaissance for infinite knowledge is embodied in Faustus. However, Faustus shows little discrimination in...
was certainly a source of influence for Marlowe. The Greek attitude to their Gods was very different from that of the Medieval Church. The Greek Encouraged a spirit of inquiry in their thought that was quite foreign to the attitudes of the Medieval Church.

Above all, Marlowe's story of Dr Faustus is of a Renaissance figure, adventurously surveying a world whose horizons were widening everyday as a result of voyages and explorations that results in a person to aspire to the greater. One could well be blind to the sins where one was on a ardent quest for knowledge.