Faust: A Tragedy [part 1], Translated from the German of Goethe
1808
Faust: A Tragedy [part 1], Translated from the German of Goethe
1808
Translated by Charles Timothy Brooks
One of literature's most dangerous ideas: what if you could experience everything, at the cost of your soul? Dr. Faust has mastered philosophy, medicine, and theology, yet finds all human knowledge hollow. In his desperation, he summons a dark spirit, and Mephistopheles arrives with an offer: true experience in exchange for Faust's eternal damnation. The pact is sealed in blood. But the wager is more subtle than simple corruption. Mephistopheles must serve Faust until a moment so perfect emerges that the scholar would beg to live in it forever. Part One follows Faust's intoxicating descent through pleasure, power, and ultimately the devastating seduction of Gretchen - a pure young woman whose destruction haunts the drama's final, ambiguous pages. This is not a morality tale. It is an unflinching examination of what we desire, what we sacrifice for it, and whether redemption is possible for those who reach too far.
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“All hope abandon, ye who enter here.””
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.””
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.””
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The devil is not as black as he is painted.””
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Through me you pass into the city of woe:Through me you pass into eternal pain:Through me among the people lost for aye.Justice the founder of my fabric moved:To rear me was the task of power divine,Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure.All hope abandon, ye who enter here.””
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.””
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?””
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice. ””
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.””
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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