Is Doctor Faustus an updated morality play or is it a reflection on a God who allows his subjects no chance from the start?

Throughout the play, Marlowe reminds the audience that they have a role in the play and are not just passively witnessing it. He does this through his use of a chorus, removed from the characters of the play, yet acting as a metaphorical bridge between the worlds of the characters and of the audience. And this ‘bridge’ promises from the outset to: ‘perform, // The form of Faustus’ fortunes, good or bad’. Here, the duality of, ‘good or bad’ clearly gives Faustus a chance from the start, involving the audience in the battle for his soul and forcing them into a role as active spectators in the play. This technique is then extended through the manipulation of stage-space, which is highlighted by Mephistopheles’ line: ‘Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.’ which implies the existence of Hell onstage, metres away from the audience, or potentially encompassing them with a rounded performance space. Throughout the play, Marlowe allows his audience to follow Faustus through time and space freely, moving across countries and years with ease and breaking the classical unities of space and time so, by including his audience in Hell also, Marlowe appears to be implying they could follow Faustus there too, implicating the audience and encouraging them to examine their own spiritual (as opposed to metaphorical spacial proximity) to Hell as a result of their own actions. To me, this implication of the audience appears to be an attempt to encourage reflection on sins – a clear potential moral.