How has Faustus fallen further? [4.0]

At the beginning of the play, we saw Faustus as an arrogant yet ambitious character. Since selling his soul, the audience will see a completely different personality shift. If reading the play, you will notice that before meeting and bargaining with Mephistopheles, Faustus was talking in Blank Verse, yet by act 4, it has changed into prose.
Evidence of his fallen status:

• Gets Mephistopheles to do all the dirty work- 'Mephistopheles, begone!' This could show either Faustus has no power and has to have Meph do it for him, or it could show that Faustus is too lazy to do it. Personally I think it's the first argument.


• The horseman keeps getting Faustus' name wrong - 'Doctor Fus..Doctor Faustian' showing not everyone knows or admires him.


• He lives off the rewards given to him by the Aristocracy. This suggests that his initial ambition to become ruler 'pole to pole' has gone down the drain- he now spends his time acting almost like a jester or entertainer for the hierarchy, where before he spent his time learning, reading etc.


• Fetching the Duchess grapes is the act of a servant, shows his social status has decreased dramatically.

Mephistopheles Act 2

I quite enjoyed this scene. I believe Mephistopheles is finally coming out of his shell. First impressions, he seemed honest, reliable and someone the audience could trust (due to him warning Faustus of the horrors of hell). Now, it seems that since he's got Dr F's soul, which he craved immensely, he's being short, denying Faustus of what he was promised.

Ir doesn't look good for Faustus, lets be honest. He wanted knowledge beyond the human reach- and it was given to him in a book. He wanted to know the secrets of the universe, yet Meph holds back, telling him things he knew in the first place. So Faustus asks for a wife, Meph then tells him not to have one, but to have many prostitutes each morning.

It could be argued that Mephistopheles is denying him each of Dr F's wishes to show trickery, Meph is a devil and a servant of Lucifer after all. Another, perhaps weaker argument is that Meph denies Dr F these wishes because of jealousy. Meph has made an attachment, a relationship with Faustus, and is jealous of the Doctor's earthly life. Perhaps Meph craved his soul so he could re-create the life Meph wanted. Or, cast your minds back to last lesson, is there connotations of Mephistopheles having homosexual lusts for Dr F, backed up with the evidence that Meph denied the Doctor a wife.