Tutor comments on sample essay 1
This is a promising first essay. You begin well by setting out your plan clearly and in a way that shows that you have thought carefully about the title. You organise your essay methodically and support your points of interpretation with reference to the text. In particular, you comment well on the opening and closing speeches of the Chorus. There remains scope to describe morality structure more carefully, to show how Marlowe manipulates it and to describe the features of the play that lead you to interpret it as a tragedy. You might discuss why Faustus decides to act the way he does and why he persists in that particular course of action despite his doubts. You could explain what features of his characterisation ( for example his imagination, his doubts, his suffering) might make him appear tragic rather than simply wicked.
