Dr. Faustus

Doctor Faustus sells his soul to the devil by signing a contract with his own blood. By doing this he has limitless knowledge and dark magic. Faustus realizes by the end of the play that he was not happy with the bargain that he made. It may have helped him a few times, but he realizes that he could have had a much more pleasant life if he had not made the bargain. I believe that the term 'Faustian Bargain' means that you believe you can control your fate by not doing any of your own work to help yourself. It may mean that you regret the bargain you have made because you realize that you would have been better off without it. Before Lucifer takes Faustus with him, Faustus pleads not to go and I believe that in that time, he regrets the bargain. You do not want to regret anything at the end of your life, but that's what Faustus did.