#like faustus is absolutely convinced of his own damnation
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Jason Todd is a Christopher Marlowe (specifically Doctor Faustus) girlie and I stand by that
#this is incredibly niche but i literally have never been more right about anything ever#doctor faustus is all about predestination and am i damned or can i be saved?#which is just so jason todd#like faustus is absolutely convinced of his own damnation#to the point that he thinks that the serpent who tempted eve can be saved but not him#also the writing is just so fucking good and jason would be insufferable about this play#like when he was younger he was a shakespeare guy bc pretentious and shakespeare is pretty accessible#but post resurrection???#he happened upon doctor faustus by chance and he hasn't been the same since#he's a marlowe girlie now through and through#there's this one line in the A text that goes#i'll leap up to my god! who drags me down? see see how christ's blood streams in the firmament! one drop would save my soul. half a drop!#like gOD the imagery?#faustus trying to leap up to god but something is dragging him down?#christ's blood streaming from the sky and all faustus needs is not even one drop but just half a drop and yet he still can't get even that#that line is part of his monologue in the minutes before he gets dragged to hell by demons#(he sold his soul to the devil in exchange for magic bc he was bored of academia and had learned everything he possibly could already)#but at the very end of the monologue he goes#my god my god look not so fierce on me!#which if you know the bible is a blatant blasphemy of christ's my god my god why have you forsaken me#like marlowe is so#to have the man who sold his soul to devil in his last moments before being condemned begging to god mirror jesus's line from his last#moments before he was condemned to die??#no fucking wonder marlowe was accused of blasphemy (and sodomy but that's not relevant)#anyway back to jason todd#he would fucking love this play#more detailed thoughts on this later maybe#jason todd#doctor faustus#batman
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