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==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
Gretchen is a diminutive oth the German Margarete. She is refered to as Gretchen throughout the play. Goethe "requested that Margarete become Gretchen" (Champagne). | |||
In line 2623, Mehisto is refering to the wooden horse that entered Troy and captured it; "Why look a gift horse, in the mouth?."(582). | |||
Faust does not limit himself to power in any way: " he increases it through his seduction of Gretchen" (Van Der Laan). | |||
==Commentary== | ==Commentary== | ||
This scene shows Goethe's dislike for the church. Mephisto tells fasut how Margarete's mother gave the jewels to the priest. The priest says " The Church's stomach is very capacious, Gobbles up whole realms, anything precious" (582, 2631-2632)...."The Church alone, dear sister, God has named Receiver of all goods unlawfully obtained" (582, 2634-2635). It has been stated that " Although the conclusion of the play is essentially a religous one, it has nothing to do with the redeeming power of any church" (Montgomery 42). | This scene shows Goethe's dislike for the church. Mephisto tells fasut how Margarete's mother gave the jewels to the priest. The priest says " The Church's stomach is very capacious, Gobbles up whole realms, anything precious" (582, 2631-2632)...."The Church alone, dear sister, God has named Receiver of all goods unlawfully obtained" (582, 2634-2635). It has been stated that " Although the conclusion of the play is essentially a religous one, it has nothing to do with the redeeming power of any church" (Montgomery 42). | ||
==Study Questions== | ==Study Questions== | ||
1. What happens to the jewels? | |||
2. How does Mephisto react to this? | |||
3. What does Faust tell Mephisto to do so Margarete will not be sad? | |||
==External Resources== | ==External Resources== | ||
* [http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/faust.html Study Guide for Goethe's <i>Faust</i>] | |||
==Works Cited== | ==Works Cited== | ||
Champagne, Roland A. An Etical Model in a Postmodern ''Faust'': The Daemonic Parody of the Politics of Friendship in Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus. ''Style''. (2000) | |||
Montgomery, Paul. Goethe's Faust: Critiques of Literature. New York: Monarch Press, 1963. | |||
Van Der Laan, J.M. ''Faust's'' Divided Self and Moral Inertia. ''Monatshefte''. (1999). | |||