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.

The Chorus informs the audience that Faustus, like the branch of a tree that might have grown straight, has died prematurely. Faustus, the devotee of Apollo, the god of wisdom, has died before his learning could truly mature: “(B)urned is Apollo’s laurel bough/ That sometime grew within this learned man.” The Chorus poignantly laments that “Faustus is gone.” The audience is invited to “regard his hellish fall” as a consequence of his error in wasting his abilities and his knowledge on evil goals. The Chorus says that Faustus’ life teaches a moral lesson, namely, that “forward wit” should not dare to do more than what “heaven permits.”

Explanation:

The Epilogue spoken by the Chorus underlines the premature and tragic death of Faustus: “Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight.” The next line, “And burned is Apollo’s laurel bough,” alludes to the destruction that Faustus’ desire for knowledge has caused. The final lines are a weighty warning against those who would go beyond mankind’s natural limits. The Epilogue, therefore, reinforces the moral of the entire play. The Chorus laments the senseless waste of Faustus’ life. Some critics have remarked that the Epilogue spoken by the Chorus is trite and insincere. This interpretation may be due to an overall lack of consistency and purpose in the Chorus of this play

as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.

because he is using a description to provide evidence to support his argument.

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