This is a one-page (250 words) assignment.Develop a “thesis statement” and support it for one page.Use MLA formatting style.Some examples are attached.1.  What is a thesis statement? PHRASE YOUR

Aaltonen 1 Student Paper Dr. John Norton English 201 Summer Online Date Doctor Faustus Thesis Page Doctor Faustus walks the fine line between salvation and damnation. As he signs his life away to the devil and pursues debauchery, he consoles himself with the story of the thief who was crucified next to Christ but saved at the last minute through faith and repentance. Doctor Faustus, however, fails to repent even in his last moments due to lack of faith and understanding of God's love and enters a life of eternal death. Christopher Marlowe uses the protagonist in Doctor Faustus to illustrate not only man's sinful nature to pursue desires of the flesh but the sinful heart that allows his unbelief to limit and confine God's power and grace. Faustus, frustrated and dissatisfied with the limitations of human knowledge, decides to call on Mephistopheles, a devil, to acquire more power. Rather than pursuing God, the One who created and possesses all knowl edge, he decides to “rack the name of God/abjure the Scriptures and his Savior Christ” (1.3.45 -46). Faustus selectively reads the Scripture (1.1.38 -45), omitting verses that speak of God's faith and forgiveness and emphasizing those that speak of man's sin ful nature and the consequence of sin, to give himself an excuse to renounce God and place his hope in worldly desires.

He is convinced that there is no way out of eternal death and that God has made it that way (1.1.45), implying that he is being coerced down this road because there is no alternative and casts the blame onto God. Despite Mephistopheles' effort to dissuade Faustus from submitting his life to Lucifer by explicitly professing the authority of God and the unbearable pain that comes with exist ence devoid of heavenly bliss, Faustus doesn't hesitate and confidently promises Mephistopheles his life. From the start, the reader can deduce that Faustus doesn't really know where true power lies and is fully convinced that the devil has more to offer h im than God.