Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Faust 
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, “Faust”
Faust is a man endowed with unquenchable thirst for life, desire for knowledge of the universe, nature of things, and his own feelings. Faust is not just a character, he is the personification of all mankind. Like romantic heroes, Faust is not able to perceive happiness in his earthly incarnation. Instead of meeting satisfaction, he feels a spiritual emptiness and pain from the vanity of the life. That is how he begins his first monolog:
"I've studied, alas, philosophy,
Law and medicine, recto and verso,
And how I regret it, theology also,
Oh God, how hard I've slaved away,
With what result? Poor foolish old man,
I'm not whit wiser than when I began!" (p. 105)
The doctor is a man of high spiritual aspirations. He is an active, intelligent, and erudite man. In his quest, Faust wants to find a way of being where dream and reality, heaven and earth, soul and body will be in harmony. Faust says for Wagner:
"Two souls live in me, alas,
Irreconcilable with one another.
One, lusting for the world with all its might,
Grapples it close, greedy of all its pleasures,
The other rises up, up from the dirt,
Up to the blest fields where dwell our great forebears." (p. 122)
His desire of knowledge of “the real truth” cannot be satisfied. Thus, Faust's mind cannot reach the harmony; the hero is always looking for something higher and better.
"If only I had wings to rise into
The air and follow ever after!" (p. 122)
The real truth cannot be found somewhere on the earth; it is way higher, it's divine, it's unreachable for simple minds. Faust cannot submit that, and the character places himself close to the divine creatures.
"Me, the image of God, certain in my belief
Soon, soon, I'd behold the mirror of eternal truth..." (p. 111)
Faust feels that the knowledge of the common man is not enough for him. He made a pact with the devil, Mephisto, to extend his life "to the end of mankind". The romantic hero does it not only in order to get the
Faust is a man endowed with unquenchable thirst for life, desire for knowledge of the universe, nature of things, and his own feelings. Faust is not just a character, he is the personification of all mankind. Like romantic heroes, Faust is not able to perceive happiness in his earthly incarnation. Instead of meeting satisfaction, he feels a spiritual emptiness and pain from the vanity of the life. That is how he begins his first monolog:
"I've studied, alas, philosophy,
Law and medicine, recto and verso,
And how I regret it, theology also,
Oh God, how hard I've slaved away,
With what result? Poor foolish old man,
I'm not whit wiser than when I began!" (p. 105)
The doctor is a man of high spiritual aspirations. He is an active, intelligent, and erudite man. In his quest, Faust wants to find a way of being where dream and reality, heaven and earth, soul and body will be in harmony. Faust says for Wagner:
"Two souls live in me, alas,
Irreconcilable with one another.
One, lusting for the world with all its might,
Grapples it close, greedy of all its pleasures,
The other rises up, up from the dirt,
Up to the blest fields where dwell our great forebears." (p. 122)
His desire of knowledge of “the real truth” cannot be satisfied. Thus, Faust's mind cannot reach the harmony; the hero is always looking for something higher and better.
"If only I had wings to rise into
The air and follow ever after!" (p. 122)
The real truth cannot be found somewhere on the earth; it is way higher, it's divine, it's unreachable for simple minds. Faust cannot submit that, and the character places himself close to the divine creatures.
"Me, the image of God, certain in my belief
Soon, soon, I'd behold the mirror of eternal truth..." (p. 111)
Faust feels that the knowledge of the common man is not enough for him. He made a pact with the devil, Mephisto, to extend his life "to the end of mankind". The romantic hero does it not only in order to get the