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In Goethe's Faust, at the beginning, to prove to Mephisopheles that all men are not evil, The Lord wagers with the other that Faust, The Lord's servant, can be saved. Mephistopheles has taken the...
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I am going to assume that you are referring to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s two-part tragic play, Faust, published in 1808 and 1832. As you hint, one of the remarkable things about the work is...
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[eNotes editors are only permitted to answer one question at a time. If you have additional questions, please post them separately.] In Goethe's Faust, the protagonist can be considered a Romantic...
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The heroine of Goethe's Faust Part I is Margaret, the diminutive for whom is Gretchen (i.e., diminutive: an affectionate family or shortened name). Margaret is a heroine in the Romantic period...
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There are two categories of literary devices. There are literary elements and literary techniques. Literary elements are setting, plot, conflict, structure, climax, characters, and other parts of...
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When to the moment I shall say,/ “Linger awhile! so fair thou art!”/ Then mayst thou fetter me straightway,/ Then to the abyss will I depart! In Goethe's masterpiece, Faust's damning pact with...
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In Goethe's Faust Part I, in the section preceding (1064-1109) "Two souls, alas, exist in my breast" (1112), Faust delivers a long lament. It is the content of this lament to which the remark...
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Faust is profoundly dissatisfied with his life. He's an astrologist and magician who yearns for knowledge, but he's frustrated by the very human limits placed upon the acquisition of that...
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I don't know which version of Faust that you are interested in: the two primary ones taught are either the poem by Goethe or the play by Christopher Marlowe. (The basic plot elements are the...
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In Goethe's Faust, in the "Prologue in Heaven," the Lord is in heaven, gathered with his heavenly host. Included among those there are the angels, Raphael, Gabriel and Michael; Mephistopheles is...
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Striving and action drive the plot of Goethe's Faust, making the re-translation absolutely appropriate for the character and the story. These values lie at the heart of Faust's character from the...
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The "Prologue in Heaven," part of Goethe's Faust, presents a place where God reigns over all, even Mephistopheles. The heavenly host are gathered, with angels Raphael, Gabriel and Michael praising...
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Romanticism was a reaction against an emotionless rationality and structured literature that defined the Age of Enlightenment and Reason. Faust personifies this dichotomy on his way to becoming...
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A story's message is most often said to be its themes, but this is not necessarily always true. Themes are very often formally stated, such as Power and Greed, Individualism and Religion, Fraud and...
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I think that one of the most dominant themes in Faust is a condition of modernity that Goethe understood better than most. In Faust, there is a constant striving to appropriate the world in...
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In the beginning of Faust Part I & II, Faust is discontent with his knowledge and skills and, as he tells Wagner in "City Gate," desires to hover between the sky and ocean and stay with the...
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At the end of Part I of Goethe's Faust, Gretchen is in prison waiting to be executed. When [Faust] first meets her, [he] is rebuffed by Gretchen on the street. Mephisto cannot help because she is...
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Goethe was the originator of the Romantic period but once he witnessed what the premises of Romanticism did to society he renounced Romanticism. This is why sixty years passed before Goethe agreed...
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The reasons that Goethe included an intervention from A Voice (From Above) are several and have to do with Margarete (Gretchen), Mephistopheles, and Faust. Margaret has been condemned for the...
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This is a complex portion of Goethe's poem. Understanding Faust's motive is dependent upon (1) understanding his quest and unrest as revealed in "Night" and "Before the City-Gate"; (2)...
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Goethe's Faust is a version of the original story of Doctor Faustus first appearing in 1587 in the Faust Chapbook. "Romantic sensibilities and eighteenth-century attitudes toward earthly life and...
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On the face of it, Faust has an awful lot going for him. A scholar of high renown and a man of considerable charm and intelligence, many people would give their eye teeth to be in his shoes. But...
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Faust and Peer Gynt, in Goethe's Faust and Ibsen's Peer Gynt, are not alike in character traits though they are alike in some of their actions taken. Faust is an accomplished and respected...
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This is almost a trick question about Goethe's Faust because Mephistopheles doesn't say anything like any of these options. The best answer to the above is to approximate what Mephistopheles may be...
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In Goethe's Faust Part I, we see the main character who is unhappy and desiring more knowledge; he even contemplates becoming part of the cosmos through suicide. He lives an academic life, separate...
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In accepting gifts from Mephistopheles, engaging in wagers with the devil, and directly challenging the spiritual and ethical standards with which he has been molded to live socially, Faust...
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Baucis and Philemon represent the point of where Faust can begin to achieve salvation. If Goethe does not include them, Faust's depravity can continue unabated. It is Baucis and Philemon that...
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Goethe wrote his version of Faust in reaction to Enlightenment philosophy which espoused that science could ultimately answer all questions. Goethe, however, believed that some things in life...
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In both versions, there is a wager that involves the fate of a good man: can he be tempted by evil and turned away from God? In Goethe's Faust, the tempter is Mephistopheles, a demon from German...
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I think that Goethe is rendering a powerful statement through Faust about the nature of capitalism. Faust's desire to appropriate the world in accordance to his own subjectivity is essential to...
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This is actually a complex and difficult question. If we look for the answer from a textual perspective, we have to note that when Goethe finished the text of "Dungeon" in 1774, the Voice (From...
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Since Rousseau didn't publish his first work, New Heloise, until 1760 and Goethe finished what is called the Urfaust in 1775, following The Sorrows of Young Werther, it must be stated that any...
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There are several characters who represent evil at Walpurgis Night (or Walpurgisnacht) in Goethe's Faust. Walpurgis Night is: [t]he 17th century German tradition of a meeting of sorcerers and...
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The quotation is very much applicable to today's world, and to humanity throughout all time. To see how, think about it this way. In many religious and myth systems, pride and its related...
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Johann Goethe's Faust is Romantic text. Given that the text illustrates the influence of Nature (capitalized to illustrate power through personification), one cannot deny the Romantic...
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In Goethe's Faust, Part I, the outcome of the conversation between God and Mephistopheles is a wager. Mephistopheles presents himself in heaven before God and proceeds to complain about the state...
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Goethe's Faust, Part Two, is broken down into five separate acts. His goals in several sections overlap with things he has tried to accomplish in an earlier section. In Act One of Part Two, after...
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Goethe creates his Faust as a special temptation to the devil in response to the prevalence of Enlightenment thinking in Germany during the eighteenth century. In "The Prologue in...
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To extend the "pawn" chess metaphor, Mephistopheles is very powerful chess master and formidable opponent. In this light, it is clear that Margarete was his pawn, though she didn't feel his...
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Walpurgis Night come from the German tradition about witches, and is supposedly the day when the connection between the living and the dead is strong. (The inclusion of this festival, which does...
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Faust is a play written by the German writer and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Gretchen is the main female character in this play. Faust falls in love with her and wants to win her affections....
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In Johann Goethe's Faust, we think it’s safe to say that Margaret is a complex character that both symbolizes and transcends many stereotypes and sexist tropes about women. When Faust first sees...
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It is easy to identify Rousseau's ideology in Faust Part I, but harder to find a trace of it in Part II. The reasons are three-fold. First, sixty years past between the originally published...
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Let us base the answer to this question entirely on their relationship, specifically, the disparate nature of their origins, the goals that they both have in mind, and how everything ends. In...
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Goethe's work is powerful because of its introduction to the modern definition of tragedy. Faust is a character who seeks to appropriate the world in accordance to his own subjectivity. Goethe...
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Faust by Johann Goethe is a play that resists easy and simplistic analysis. It was written over a period of half a century, begun in 1772 and not completed until 1831. It is not a simple tale of...
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Rousseau began writing in 1750 (Discours) and Goethe wrote the first portions of the Urfaust (original fragment of Faust) in 1772, therefore it is reasonable that there may be influences of...
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This is a very interesting question because Goethe does not really paint Faust in Faust Part I as a sinner the way Marlowe paints Faustus as a sinner: Faustus intentionally conjures...
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The summary of Faust by Johann Goethe does, in fact, cover all of the acts of the play. If you have a paid subscription, you can view a full summary. A free subscription only gives you partial...
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One possibility for an essay comparing Goethe's Faust Part I & II with Shakespeare's The Tempest would to be to explore the theme of illusion, which plays a prominent role in each drama. In...