Answer:
Franz Kafka wrote continuously and furiously throughout his short and
intensely lived life, but only allowed a fraction of his work to be published during his
lifetime. Shortly before his death at the age of forty, he instructed Max Brod, his friend
and literary executor, to burn all his remaining works of fiction. Fortunately, Brod. The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka's stories, from the classic
tales such as "The Metamorphosis," "In the Penal Colony" and "The Hunger Artist" to
less-known, shorter pieces and fragments Brod released after Kafka's death; with the
exception of his three novels, the whole of Kafka's narrative work is included in this
volume. The remarkable depth and breadth of his brilliant and probing imagination
become even more evident when these stories are seen as a whole.
Explanation:
1. The Pope thinks Faustus is a ghost.
Faustus and Mephastophilis have become invisible and they came to the Pope to play tricks on him. They started flinging the dishes around the room and the Pope and his friars got scared and though there is a ghost in the room, which is why he started crossing himself.
2. Faustus tells the Pope to stop crossing himself because the sign of the cross has no effect on Faustus.
Faustus realizes that religion is a fraud, especially when he didn't see God or knows of his existence, whereas the Devil is next to him playing tricks on mortals and taking their souls. He isn't frightened or offended by those symbols - he just knows that they are future and have no effect whatsoever.
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