The want for power

There are many different relationships between knowledge and power. Some are more obvious than others. One of the more obvious ones is that you cannot have power without knowledge, and you cannot have knowledge without asking questions. This relationship is shown in Doctor Faustus and Federigo’s Falcon.
In Doctor Faustus, Faustus is in such an immense need for power that he forgets about knowledge. Faustus is very stupid. He asks all the questions, but does not listen for the answers. Even as Lucifer’s followers are “forever damned with Lucifer,” which Mephostophilis tells him very bluntly, he still chooses not to listen, and continues asking pointless questions. He wants his power too much (73). He lets his want for power empower all of his thoughts so much that “the word ‘damnation...