Question

Explain what this Doctor Faustus Passage means, please.

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,

And burned is Apollo's laurel-bough,

That sometime grew within this learned man.

Faustus is gone: regard his hellish fall,

Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise,

Only to wonder at unlawful things,

Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits

To practice more than heavenly power permits.

Answer 1

The text presented in the question shows how Faust had everything to be a successful and blessed man, but he decided to follow a tortuous path, like a branch that could have grown straight, but was burned and became tortuous. The text shows that Faust's tortuous path was involvement with demonic, sinful things. What caused him to be condemned to hell.

Step-by-step explanation:

"Doctor Fausto" tells the story of a scholar named Fausto, who, tired of the common knowledge that books and research gave him, decided to have knowledge and control of magic, even going so far as to invoke a demon who could guide him in this knowledge. However, this causes Fasuto to move further and further away from divine things, allowing the devil to take over his soul and condemn him to hell.