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Title: Faust: Part One


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Faust Part One
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
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  • a German writer- generally acknowledged as the
    most important
  • George Eliot called him "Germany's greatest man
    of letters... and the last true polymath (a
    person of great learning in several fields of
    study) to walk the earth.
  • Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama,
    literature, theology, philosophy, and science.
  • Goethe's Faust, a two-part dramatic poem, is
    lauded as one of the peaks of world literature

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Goethe
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Faust
The story of a man whose intellectual cravings
led him to sell his soul to the devil. Goethe
worked for most of his life (off and on for 60
yrs!) on this masterwork.
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  • Faust is an alchemical drama from beginning to
    end.
  • Faust or Faustus is Latin for auspicious or
    lucky. Today the name is often used to refer to
    describe a man whose overwhelming desire for
    self-fulfillment and knowledge lead to pain and
    destruction.
  • Protagonist of classic German folk tale of a man
    who seeks forbidden knowledgean astrologer,
    expert in magic, and an alchemist.

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  • Goethe's story created a new persona for the
    Devil - Mephistopheles was a gentleman, who had
    adopted the manners of a courtier.
  • Faust's lust for knowledge is limitless but he is
    frustrated by his limits as a human- he makes a
    contract with Mephistopheles he will die and
    Meph. may take Fausts soul at the moment Faust
    declares himself truly happy (Faust thinks its a
    bet he cant lose.)

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  • Fausts yearning for experience and knowledge
    created the character type known as the Faustian
    hero, though Faust can often seem more of a
    villain than a hero and the supposed
    villain--Mephistopheles--is one of the most
    likable characters in the play
  • The book was designed to be read rather than
    performed
  • It is difficult, if not useless, to try to figure
    out what the "real" point of Faust is, or which
    of the many views of life it presents is the
    correct one. Its Romantic precisely because it
    explores a wide variety of polar opposites
    without fully resolving them.
  • One the most important tensions in the play is
    between scholarly learning and experience. Faust
    himself rejects scholarship for life experiences,
    but Goethe does not completely endorse this view.
    Mephistopheles, who is usually both truthful and
    wise, warns him against this enthusiasm for raw
    experience.

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Satan?
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