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Faust: Part 1 - J.W. von Goethe

 

Description: ISBN 0195004108 / Author: J. W. von Goethe / Genre: Drama / Poetry / Criticism

Newest Review: ... is too moral an individual to be tempted by anything. Mephisptopheles sets to work, appearing to Faust and conversing with ... more

 ... him. Faust is weary of life, and Mephistopheles is soon able to convince him that he could sample something more. When Faust is taken to the home of a witch, he looks into a magicl mirror and sees a beautiful young woman, who he at once desires. Mephistopheles has the witch make faust young again, and they set out to win the young woman. Margaret (or Gretchen as she is sometimes called in the script) is young, innocent and quite pure. She falls in love with faust, and is secudeced by him. When he kills her brother ...more

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Premium Review Faust: Part 1 - J.W. von Goethe: Goethe's alarming genius (732 words)
by Bryn Pearson - written on 06.12.01 (Very useful, 132 readings)
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First Published in 1808, Goethe’s Faust is a text most English speakers will only ever encounter in translation. Faust was undoubtedly Goethe's greatest work into which he poured a lifetime of experience - the whole work took him his whole life, as the second part was only finished a year before his death. The play contains an amazing combination of religion, the supernatural, romance, tragedy and the utterly strange. Faust is the play of the romantic movement. Goethe transforms the old legend of Faust's temptation into a universal metaphor for human existence and striving. Temptation and spiritual corruption run alongside a desire to salvage ...

great german literature (124 words)
by - written on 26.09.00
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I never knew how enjoyable reading plays could be until I read Part I of FAUST. I enjoyed it much more than The Odyssey and Romeo and Juliet. It has an interesting plot and several lines that I will never forget. It also shows how able a man is to hold his morals under the worst circumstances. Buy the Philip Wayne translation. He translated the work without using any Old English, makes it very easy to understand by the word order, and most of all makes great rhymes. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience or knowledge can lead him to a moment he would wish to last ...

 

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