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Faust returns to Margarete/Gretchen. Gretchen wants to know where Faust stands on his religious beliefs. Faust talks his way around the question, never giving her a straight answer. Gretchen gives into her belief that Faust is an intellectual. "I guess what you say is all right, The priest speaks so, or pretty near"(16.3278-3279). Gretchen tells Faust that she senses something wrong with his companion, Mephistopheles. "It's written on his face as plain as day. He loves no one, we're all his enemy"(16.3310-3311). Gretchen has the ability to sense the danger in Mephistopheles but not in Faust. | |||
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Revision as of 17:56, 26 February 2006
Summary
Faust returns to Margarete/Gretchen. Gretchen wants to know where Faust stands on his religious beliefs. Faust talks his way around the question, never giving her a straight answer. Gretchen gives into her belief that Faust is an intellectual. "I guess what you say is all right, The priest speaks so, or pretty near"(16.3278-3279). Gretchen tells Faust that she senses something wrong with his companion, Mephistopheles. "It's written on his face as plain as day. He loves no one, we're all his enemy"(16.3310-3311). Gretchen has the ability to sense the danger in Mephistopheles but not in Faust.
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Works Cited
Dieckmann, Liselotte. Goethe’s Faust: A Critical Reading. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1972
Macneice, Louis. Goethe’s Faust. New York: Oxford UP, 1971.
Smeed, J.W. Faust in Literature. New York: Oxford UP, 1971.