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In Christopher Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus', how does Faustus's pact with Lucifer interrogate the limits of Renaissance humanism?
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- 1It dramatizes the limitations of secular intellect divorced from spiritual humility, leading to damnation✓
- 2It acts as a literal political allegory advocating for democratic governance against monarchy
- 3It presents Faustus's damnation as a historic error later corrected by Enlightenment thinkers
- 4It completely validates Faustus's actions as a triumph of scientific rationalism over superstition
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It dramatizes the limitations of secular intellect divorced from spiritual humility, leading to damnation
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