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 ===Margarete (Gretchen)===
-Margarete is a young, modest, religious woman of a lower class than Faust. She lives with her mother and helps out around the house. She is referred to as Gretchen many times throughout the story.  Gretchen is a shortened version of her name. Faust finds Margarete attractive and tells Mephistopheles to get her for him. Margarete at first refuses the advances of Faust. However, she finally accepts Faust and thus begins her downfall. Faust gets her pregnant. Margarete is persecuted by society and cursed by her brother as he lay dying. Margarete is thrown in prison for the murder of her baby. Faust and Mephistopheles try to rescue her from the prison. However, when they find her she has gone mad. As Mephisto and Faust leave the prison a Heavenly voice says that Margarete's soul has been saved.
+Margarete is a young, modest, and religious woman of a lower class than Faust. She lives with her mother and helps out around the house. She is referred to as Gretchen, which is a shortened version of Margarete, many times throughout the story. Faust finds Margarete attractive and tells Mephistopheles to get her for him. At first, she refuses his advances, but eventually agrees to a love affair and thus begins her downfall. When Faust gets her pregnant, she is persecuted by society and cursed by her brother as he lay dying. Out of insane desperation, Margarete murders her mother and child and is thrown into prison. Faust and Mephistopheles attempt to rescue her, but discover that she is completely mad and are forced to leave her behind. As Mephisto and Faust leave the prison, a Heavenly voice says that Margarete's soul has been saved.
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