Throughout this scene we see Faustus switching his views quite considerably. He switches between repenting to God and then worshiping the 'Great Lucifer'.
This can be seen as at the begginging the first thing he says is 'when I behold the heavens I repent.' The fact this is the first thing he says after selling his soul to the devil the audience would think after all the time previous he has realised his god and now therefore wishes to repent. However just a couple of lines down after the Evil angel says that Faustus is a spirit and God will no longer 'pitty thee' after hearing this he lets the audience know that his ' heart's hard'ned' and that he can no longer' repent' and he has an adamancy about this by using the word 'resolv'd' makes the audience feel that he has no made up his mind and is definite he will not repent. The fact he wavers in this way could highlight the weak character that he is.
At the start of the scene Faustus does 'curse' 'wicked' Mephistophilis For depriving him of the 'Joys of heaven' It is previously known that faustus loved mephistophilis and would give anything for Faustus 'had there been as many souls as there were stars' This is a stark contrast to the way he is now viewing mephistophilis this could highlight there change in relationship and that it indeed was only based around Faustus getting what he wants.
Indeed Mephistophilis was the one warning Faustus from hell but is now blaming him failing to take responsibilty for his actions.
Looking through the play up to this point it appears that their is a battle between the Good angel and the Evil angel. If the good angel wins the argument or maybe faustus heart then he turns to Gods side if the Evil angel wins the argument i.e the last one to speak Faustus turns that way. This could highlight that their is not only a battle going on between the good and bad angel but Faustus is their pawn of their winnning or loosing state and therefore could just be a tool to highlight the battle going on in more divinitive battles.
It is apparent in this scene that although Faustus has sold his soul to the devil there is still chance to repent and turn to God this can be seen as when Faustus cries out ' christ, my saviour..' it is infact lucifer, Belzebub and Mephistophilis who appear. This demonstrates that they infact were worried enough that the king of hell had to come and tempt Faustus, as he was in danger of repenting and this could be played out more appaent on stage through the tone of desparation in Faustus voice.
Finally Lucifer tempts Faustus with ' The seven deadly sins'. Lucifer instructs Faustus to ' Examine' their names and dispositions However we see that this is infact what Faustus doesn't do after each one infact he domes dismiss them quite readily. 'what art thou the second?' This could suggest that he is trying to remain confident in the fear of lucifer.
Some of the seven deadly sins appear to use really commical terms such as ' Petre picckleherring and Martlemas beef' Joking around with the severity of matters may have been done so that it appears even more dark and scary to the audience.
The end of the scene seems to end in resolution as if Lucifer has now one the battle.
The possibility of actually having the sins come on as people could emphasise to the audience that these are real things going on and it's from hell these things have come and here it could possibly be a mockery of the catholic church that ministers were doing these sort of things.
