The term Renaissance means "rebirth" or "reawakening".
This term was widely spread all over the "Dark Age".
The wave of Renaissance started in Italy during 14th Century.
Gradually the huge wave came towards Europe and England.
Renaissance created a storm in each and every field of human lives.
Due to Renaissance new discoveries were made in the field of knowledge.
New geographical discoveries were completed.
People were raising their voice against different religious dogmas and Christian theologies.
Now inhabitants wanted to know the unknown material.
They were fonder of beauty and creativity.
People were started to having high ambition; they were having interest in power, money, and lust.
Even we get the idea of new world in the writing of Machiavelli especially in "The Prince".
He encouraged us to have all pleasure of the world, while disregarding the ethics and conventional principles.
Christopher Marlowe is also fond of Renaissance and its impacts.
He loves the spirit of Renaissance.
To him Renaissance can give him yearning for knowledge, sensual pleasures in life, sky-rising ambition, lust for power and property, and the spirit of revolt.
He has to achieve all above mentioned wish list only by ignoring the age-old beliefs, morality and moral codes.
Renaissance projects his inner personality through his four tragedies - "Tamburlaine", "The Jew of Malta", "Dr.
Faustus" and "Edward II".
These tragedies are simply great and popular among the readers.
Dr.
Faustus holds the characteristics of Renaissance hero.
He loves to gain more and more Knowledge.
And that knowledge must be supreme and superior at the same time.
He wants to become a God of the Gods.
He does not care the Religious customs.
He wants to gain facts about Black Magic.
He loves Black art since he can exercise the power on everybody.
He is curious about the limitless knowledge.
He is ignoring the constant warning of Mephistophilis and the "Good Angel" and prepares himself to have the tete-a-tete with "Evil Angel".
Faustus is too fond of sensual pleasures.
Faustus requests Mephistophilis to get a German wife as his wife.
Again he wants Helen of Greece as his companion.
He craves for supreme beauty and sensual pleasure.
Thus we get all the characteristics of Renaissance in behavioral traits of Dr.
Faustus.
He does not feel any kind of hesitation to have the riches, power, sensual pleasures, and knowledge against the traditional ethics.
He goes against the Church.
Here we get the individualism of Renaissance man.
He significantly symbolizes the Renaissance spirit.
He performs miraculous deeds with the help of power.
He just simply shows careless nature in abiding the rules and regulation of Church and Christian theology.