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What do i want? Why is my heart so torn? | What do i want? Why is my heart so torn? | ||
Poor Faust, I hardly know you anymore."(579, 2512-2515). | Poor Faust, I hardly know you anymore."(579, 2512-2515). | ||
He doesn't understand why he is lusting for Margarete so much. Before, Faust had no real emotion in his life and now he is feeling so much. He realizes that he is not the same man he used to be. Faust has an inner division:" Faust cannot interact in any unified or integrated fashion with the world outside himself. His inner division, his alienation from himself coincides with an alienation from others as well" (Van Der Laan). Faust has difficulty getting in touch with his feminine side:"Faust sets before us the central problem of Faust's soul, his difficulties in relating to the feminine side of his being" (Bohm). | He doesn't understand why he is lusting for Margarete so much. Before, Faust had no real emotion in his life and now he is feeling so much. He realizes that he is not the same man he used to be. Faust has an inner division:" Faust cannot interact in any unified or integrated fashion with the world outside himself. His inner division, his alienation from himself coincides with an alienation from others as well" (Van Der Laan). Faust has difficulty getting in touch with his feminine side:"Faust sets before us the central problem of Faust's soul, his difficulties in relating to the feminine side of his being" (Bohm). Masculinity and Femininity are two opposites, but they do come together: "This union of Masculine and Feminine, transcending gender in a redemptive return to a primal unity" (Barbler). | ||
==Study Questions== | ==Study Questions== | ||