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This paper compares and contrasts the final scenes of "Everyman" and Christopher's Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus" by analyzing textual structure and contemporary religious innuendos. It looks at how the last scenes in both plays, though structurally similar, present final confrontations of two completely different personalities with the fate of their souls, while stressing how thin and fragile the line between heaven and hell is within the Christian belief.

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"Dr. Faustus gives his last speech (the soliloquy in V, ii, 130-187) after the departures of Wagner, the three scholars, Mephistopheles, the Good Angel, and the Bad Angel. Everyman faces the hasty farewells of Beauty, Strength, Discretion, and Five-Wits. By the end of their moral introspection, Faustus is taken to Hell whereas Everyman descends into the grave. Following their exit, three scholars come onto the stage in Dr. Faustus while Knowledge and Angel appear in Everyman. These are the last characters to appear in the plays. The epilogue is constructed in Everyman by the Doctor (a theologian who concludes the play and explains its moral) and in Dr. Faustus by the Chorus."

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