so consumes their being that they cannot accept the power of the universal order. As Barnet (xviii) says in her introduction to Doctor Faustus: “doubtful of traditional authority, anxious to exert himself to the fullest, Faustus drove himself—and was driven—into experiences that were exhilarating but that brought him into conflict with a basic law of life. His displays of pride and will evoke both wonder and pity; there is something magnificent about Faustus, but his magnificence is corrupt because it is founded on egoism rather than on love and service, and so the magnificence is destroyed by the moral order with which it conflicts. Faustus partly willingly and partly blindly rejects the inherent limitations of life, thereby becoming both hero and villain.”
Of course, Joe Boyd ends up with a better fate than Faustus who is ripped apart an
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