The light and the dark – Goethe’s faust and the theme of the search for inner wholeness

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04/26/2009

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Table of Contents The light and the dark – Goethe’s faust and the theme of the search for inner wholeness Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction
  2. Goethe and a tragic hero with a flaw mighty enough to match his best aspects
  3. Faust: A searcher
    1. Not the great altruistic man he might appear to be
    2. Using his knowledge for human betterment
    3. Faust as an egoist
    4. Faust's representation that part of the human condition which strives towards achievement
  4. What Mephistopheles offers to Faust
  5. Faust's rational cautious side
  6. Conclusion
  7. Bibliography

Abstract

In dramatic literary history, tragedies are a form through which dark elements in human motivation, character and decision making are explored. Often the tragedy revolves around the flaw of its main character, known as the tragic hero. The hero may have a tragic flaw such as egoistic hubris, or fate may deem that he must suffer, as if from a mixture of personal failing and fortune's curse. In a tragedy, terrible, profoundly earth shattering things will occur, turning the normal world completely upside down. forces are unleashed which cannot be contained; violence undoes order and justice. Justice and order, if re-established, are only achieved through a cathartic cleansing. In faust (Parts One and Two) by Johann Wolfgang von goethe, a late 18th/early 19th century play, goethe employs elements of classical tragic vision to explore the fall (and redemption) of Dr. Faustus. Faustus is one of the most learned men in his society, and as the play tells us at the beginning, a favorite of God dud to his dedication, in life, to learning, teaching and helping others. Though he has human frailties, the Lord admires him: "A good man with his groping intuitions/Still knows the path that is true and fit." (goethe: 6) It is up to Mephistopheles to try to convince God, through a wager, reminiscent of the wager in the Old Testament story of Job, that faust shall "eat - and greedily" the dust of evil and temptation. (goethe: 6)

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