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 ===Urge for Knowledge===
-The most significant theme in ''Faust'' is the drive for humankind to understand what they do not know.  Faust, in a way, is representing all of the human race: "He is able to distinguish between good and evil, right and wrong, but must make errors before he can learn and grow" (Campbell 257).  The human is naturally inquizative about the world and the universe. Faust is unhappy beause he can not find the answers to life, and he even contemplates suicide to end his despair.  It is his " urge for knowledge" that is the driving force behind the play.  If he wasn't curiuos about the world then the devil would have not made a wager with God to display than human are unhappy because of their intelligence.
+The most significant theme in ''Faust'' is the drive for mankind to understand what they do not know.  Faust, in a way, is representing the entire human race: "He is able to distinguish between good and evil, right and wrong, but must make errors before he can learn and grow" (Campbell 257).  The human is naturally inquisitive about the world and the universe. Faust is unhappy because he can not find the answers to life, and he even contemplates suicide to end his despair.  It is his “urge for knowledge" that is the driving force behind the play. His curiosity also forces Mephisto into the wager with God so that he can prove that humans are unhappy ''because'' of their intelligence.
 ==References in Popular Culture==