Modern Faustus: Mephistopheles will be Madoff!!

It has been almost 4 centuries and a decade since Christopher Marlowe wrote Dr. Faustus. Therefore, if there was to be a modern day Faustus, a lot would be different from the original version. In my modern version of Faustus, he can be anybody, really. More particularly, he should be a person with a dream chasing for success, like a college student. Because Dr. Faustus is a true renaissance man, he pursues knowledge and more knowledge. As essential as knowledge is still nowadays, there are modern day people who have mininal knowledge but are still successful just because some things go their way. Therefore, a modern day Faustus would wish for unlimited access of good luck- there isn't a time when good luck harms a person. As mentioned in Eugene's blog title, Roark mentioned that selling the soul is the easiest thing to do. That shows how far, possibly negatively, we have come from the renaissance period. So instead of selling his soul, the modern day faustus would probably make a trade for luck by giving up all his possessions and belonglings such as money, house, etc.

Instead of as a monk, modern day Mephistopheles could appear as someone who has gained success but in a corrupt and immoral way. It could be a rich, corrupt businessman- like Bernard Madoff. He would appear that way to symbolize moral corruption and dark magic because chasing for success by wishing for luck is exactly those. After Faustus gave all his money and possessions to Madoff/Mephistopheles, Mephi would simply just break the deal just as the real Madoff did in the real world and leave Faustus empty handed without either good luck or returning what he gave up.