Doctor faustus is a tragic Hero Doctor faustus play writer is Christopher marlowe. It's genre is a tragedy in 1967. Doctor faustus in characters : Dr. Faustus in character is fasut, Mephistopheles, good engel, Bed angel, the devil, lechery, covetousness, Wagner and more. Faustus is the protagonist and tragic hero of Marlowe’s play. He is a contradictory character, capable of tremendous eloquence and possessing awesome ambition, yet prone to a strange, almost willful blindness and a willingness to waste powers that he has gained at great cost. When we first meet Faustus, he is just preparing to embark on his career as a magician, and while we already anticipate that things will turn out badly (the Chorus’s introduction, if nothing else, prepares us), there is nonetheless a grandeur to Faustus as he contemp...