Mephistopheles

    Both images pictured, on the left and right, depict Mephistopheles as a sly and cunning character. This is clearly shown through his expression largely by his eyebrows but also within his eyes. His colourings are also very dark, with black hair, eyebrows and facial hair in the case on the left.

   An interesting point about the picture on the left, which is of James Reynard in 1999 who is an actor, is that he was later to play Iago from Othello, a character who also decieves and is an evil yet cunning character. This is also interesting because as we know, Shakespeare was very fond of Marlowe's work so perhaps, could've drawn elements of Iago's character from Mephistopheles? Just a suggestion...

 

 In this picture on the left, Mephistopheles once again looks conniving and mischeivous and likely to try and sway someone to the path of evil. This is obviously accurate as he acts as a gopher between Faustus and Lucifer when Faustus summons him.

   The picture on the right is an older depiction of Mephistopheles as we can tell by his clothing (which is red, no coincidence with it's connotations of the devil and hell). This could be related to the part of the play when Mephistopheles even goes as far as to say that he is hell embodied, as shown from the quote "Why, this is Hell, nor am I out of it" when Faustus asks of him how he and other devils can part from the underworld or hell.