In frustration, Faustus remains continually blind to the destruction his actions cause upon himself. He condemns Mephistopheles for his sins, but Faust summoned him through dark magic. At some points in the play, Faustus doubts his damnation in the dark hell that awaits him once his promised twenty-four years of debauchery are over. In conversing with Mephistopheles, Faustus states "Come, I think hell is a fairy tale" and then: "Why, do you think then that Faustus will be damned?" (Marlowe, Doctor Faustus 2.1.128 and 130) When his sins finally trap him so that he cannot deny his destiny, Faustus almost attempts to atone for his foolish and ephemeral pursuit of power. His internal conflict is about past choices rather than the Evil Angel and the Good Angel who had tried to persuade him of the path he should have taken before. Just like before, he can't find the strength within himself to suppress his pride and beg for forgiveness. The innate weakness in the moral fiber of his character breaks in the face of the threat of violence that Mephistopheles risks unleashing on him if he tries to invoke God to forgive him. At the last moment, Faustus in his last moments on Earth