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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:" | 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 teh worl outside himself. His inner division, his alienation from himself coincides with an alienation from others as well" (Van Der Laan). | ||
==Study Questions== | ==Study Questions== | ||