Faust: Night, Open Country: Difference between revisions

This short section of the allegorical poem, when Faust and Mephisto gallop through the open country at night, it is significant because Faust perfers to take the beaten path on this journey as well, in his ordinary life, instead of a well traveled road. He is also using the idea of nature which many romantics used. The night is symbolic of darkness that is generated from the devil and from the surroundings. Both of these are in reference to the idea of romanticism. "Artists as self-expressive individuals, the ideas of "nature," death's connection to love, night (i.e., subconscious) fears..." (Dopp).