To be, or not to be: what a question!

God Is, Lucifer is a devil, and there is a Hell.

(Marlowe's) Faustus stubbornly reverts to his atheistic beliefs and continues his elementary pagan re-education ~ the inferno to him is a 'place' invented by men.

In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.

If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.

... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!

... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.

Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?