Faust: Eine Tragödie [erster Teil]
1808
Faust: Eine Tragödie [erster Teil]
1808
Goethe's Faust stands as one of literature's most audacious bargains. Dr. Heinrich Faust, a scholar who has mastered philosophy, law, medicine, and theology, finds all human knowledge hollow. At midnight, he conjures the Earth Spirit and encounters Mephistopheles, the devil, who offers him a contract: unlimited worldly experience in exchange for his soul. The wager is deceptively simple - can there exist a moment so perfect that a man would wish it to last forever? Faust signs in blood, beginning a descent through temptation and transcendence that encompasses the seduction of Gretchen, a tragic innocent whose ruin becomes the play's devastating emotional core. Written in a remarkable fusion of classical tragedy, folk ballad, and lyrical poetry, this 1808 masterpiece grapples with the oldest human question: what would we trade our souls for, and could any answer ever truly be enough?
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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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