Reference No:1 IF I COULD TRADE MY SOULS LIKE STARS IN HEAVEN, I WOULD EXCHANGE THEM ALL FOR MEPHISTOPHILIS. Explanation with reference to the Context: This is a paraphrase of the lines spoken by Faustus in the First Act, scene III of the play ‘Doctor Faustus’ by Christopher Marlowe. Faustus is alone on the stage after Mephistopheles has left to convey his message to Lucifer. Faustus has decided to sell his soul to Lucifer in exchange for twenty-four years of unlimited power and pleasure. He expresses his extreme willingness to do so by imagining that he has as many souls as there are stars in the sky, and he would give them all to Lucifer for the sake of Mephistopheles, the devil’s servant. This shows Faustus’s intense greed and lust for worldly things and his complete disregard for his eternal salvation. He is fully committed to his pact with the devil, no matter the cost. ...