"People evolve a language in order to describe and thus control their circumstances, or in order not to be submerged by a reality that they cannot articulate". Add any words or phrases that were meaningful to you. Can you explain why these words or phrases were meaningful to you?

The play, doctor faustus, opens with a prologue. by describing faustus's beginnings as a child "base of stock" and his end as his "waxen wings" melted when "heaven conspired" to stop him, the chorus subtly calls to audience's minds, as they begin to view the play, the commonly held idea of the great chain of being the pact with the devil the seven deadly sins the renaissance man