In what ways does Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe resemble a morality play?

Although Christopher Marlowe’s play titled
Doctor Faustus is not a “morality play” in the strict sense of the
term, it obviously resembles a morality play in various ways.  Here are some of those
resemblances:

• Both Faustus
  and morality plays are explicitly concerned with moral, ethical issues – with
  matters of right and wrong, good and bad, virtue and
  evil.


• Both Faustus and morality
  plays are clearly rooted in Christian morality
  specifically.


• Both Fautus and
  morality plays announce their moral meanings quite openly. Audiences are not left
  guessing what lessons the plays are designed to
  teach.


• Both Faustus and morality
  plays emphasize man’s dependence on God for answers and
  guidance.


• Both Faustus and morality
  plays assume that some form of existence continues beyond physical death and that the
  purpose of human life is to share that eternal future existence with God, not with
  Satan.


• Both Faustus and morality
  plays are designed to teach moral, religious lessons not only to their audiences but
  often to their main characters.


• The main characters in
  both Faustus and morality plays tend to be infected by pride, the
  root from which all other sins grow.


• Both
  Faustus and morality plays often contain figures who are obviously
  allegorical or symbolic.  In Faustus, for instance, the following
  figures appear: Pride, Covetousness, Wrath, Envy, Gluttony, Sloth, and
  Lechery.


• Faustus shares with some
  morality plays elements of comedy which help highlight, through contrast, the serious
  issues with which the plays deal.


• Faustus
  shares with at least one morality play (Everyman) a
  final scene in which the main character literally descends into death before our eyes.
  In Faustus, however, the title character is led off to hell by
  devils:

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[Enter
DEVILS]

FAUSTUS: Adders and serpents, let me
breathe awhile!

Ugly hell gape not! Come not, Lucifer! 
[13.111-12]

In contrast, in
Everyman, the title character descends into the grave accompanied
by his Good Deeds and is welcomed by an angel who says, “Come, excellent elect spouse to
Jesu!” (893).

• Both Faustus
  and Everyman end with speeches addressed to the audience in which
  the moral meanings of both plays are spelled out quite
  explicitly.