Frustratingly, Faustus remains continually blind to the destruction his actions are causing him. He condemns Mephistopheles for his sins, but Faustus has recalled him through black magic. At certain moments in the play, Faustus doubts his damnation in the dark hell that awaits him once the promised twenty-four years of debauchery are over. While conversing with Mephistopheles, Faustus declares: “Come, I think hell is a fable” then: “Why, do you think then that Faustus will be damned? (Marlowe, Doctor Faustus 2.1.128 and 130) When his sins finally trap him to the point that he cannot deny his fate, Faustus almost attempts to atone for his short-lived mad quest for power. His inner conflict concerns the choices of the past rather than the Evil Angel and the Good Angel who had tried to persuade him of the path he should take previously. Just like before, he cannot find it in himself to calm his pride and ask for forgiveness. The innate weakness of the moral fiber of his character shatters before the threat of violence that Mephistopheles threatens to unleash on him if he attempts to invoke God to forgive him. At the last moment, Faustus in his last moments on Earth to