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Dr. Faustus was a degree holder in theology and he was well known in his country. People admire him. He was fond of learning and gaining more knowledge about the world and the life. He found a some books about necromantic in his collection and about thinking for some time he found them interesting and casted spell to call Lucifer (Satan) to gain worldly sensuous powers and sold his soul to Devil for twenty four years of blasphemous life, full of vain and sensuous pleasure. Summary Doctor Faustus, a well-respected German scholar, grows dissatisfied with the limits of traditional forms of knowledge—logic, medicine, law, and religion—and decides that he wants to learn to practice magic. His friends Valdes and Cornelius instruct him in the black arts, and he begins his new career as a magician by summoning up Mephistopheles, a devil. Despite Mephistopheles’s warnings about the horrors of hell, Faustus tells the devil to return to his master, Lucifer, with an offer of Faustus’s soul in exc...

The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Chaucer’s Humour Humour is an essential ingredient ( حصہ / جزو ) of Chaucer’s poetry and the backbone of The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. All the characters in The Prologue have been humorously described. Humour, in fact, makes Chaucer’s characterization distinct. A humorist is one who is quick to perceive the funny side of the things and who has the capacity to laugh and makes other laugh at what is absurd or ridiculous or incongruous. Chaucer is called the first humorist of English literature. No English literary work before him reveals humour in the modern sense and Chaucer is a greater humorist than Boccaccio.   Chaucer’s humour is consistent all pervasive and intense as we find in Shakespeare’s plays. He paints all the characters in a humorous way. The Knight is as gentle as a maid; the Squire is too sentimental in his love to sleep at night, the Friar has relations with the barmaids instead of the poor, t...