How has Faustus fallen further? Act 3? Hopefully we weren't supposed to do Act 4 but I think we were? I did Act 3 anyways...

Think this is only referring to Act 4 but I would like to talk about Act 3.1 as that is what we did in class and I believe from this scene it is obvious Faustus has fallen considerably. For example:

• When Wagner says 'did mount himself to scale Olympus' top' - Faustus is being related to a God, as Zeus lived there, but the Greek gods would have been seen as fake for a christian, renaissance audience. FALLEN.
• He's seen a load of lovely, pretty places, such as the river Rhine(before he was talking about moving rivers... now he's merely visiting them), Trier, Maro's tomb(before he wanted to be a great Magician, now he's stood looking at a great Magician's tomb...), Venice, etc etc - but what has he actually done or gained? FALLEN.
• In general in this scene, when Mephistopheles tells Faustus what to do - he does it. This seems to be the opposite from what happened when the two characters first met and Faustus was ridiculously ambitious. FALLEN.
• He's belittling himself by playing silly tricks on the Pope, and even goes as far as to slap him LOL - 'and by their folly make us merriement.' FALLEN.
• His weird little rhyme, 'Bell, book, and candle, candle, book and bell...' illustrates silliness of the scene = lower-class: FALLEN.