Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy is the first part of Goethe’s Faust. [From Wikipedia ~2009] Synopsis. Although there is no precise classification in the overall story, the individual scenes may be loosely bound into three parts: The Prologue, Faust’s Tragedy and Gretchen’s Tragedy. Prologues. The Prologue in the Theatre Arindal, thy bow was strong, thy spear was swift on the field, thy look was like mist on the wave, thy shield a red cloud in a storm! Armar, renowned in war, came and sought Daura's love. He was not long refused: fair was the hope of their friends. "Erath, son of Odgal, repined: his brother had been slain by Armar. Analysis. Faust enters his study with the poodle, feeling that his better soul has been awakened by the night, and he feels a greater sense of love for man and God. The poodle is running about, and Faust offers it a cushion to lie down on by the stove. He then sings of self-knowledge, hope, and life-giving waters, only for the poodle to growl Faust Reading Guide. Faust Reading Guide - ENG 109, Spring 2007. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German, 1749-1832) (pronunciation: YOH-hahn VOHLF-gahng fon GAY-tuh) Faust (1808; 1832) in Davis et al. pp. 551-651 (ll. 243-1850) One of the "Representative Texts" featured in: Davis, Paul, and others, eds. Western Literature in a World Context. Volume 2: Faust stabs him and Valentine falls in pain, mortally wounded. Cries of blood and murder are heard, and Faust and Mephistopheles escape into the night. Mephistopheles is like the playwright and theater director here, coordinating a duel and then scripting the fates of the duelists with malicious glee. Faust has no good reason to fight Valentine. Summary and Analysis Part 1: Maragareta's Room. Alone in her room, Gretchen sadly thinks that Faust has abandoned her. She sits at her spinning wheel and sings: And never more . . . The "Spinning Wheel Song" is one of Goethe's best-known lyrics. It expresses Gretchen's overwhelming love for Faust. Her words indicate that her coming "seduction Torquato Tasso is a play in verse by the German dramatist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about the sixteenth-century Italian poet and courtier Torquato Tasso and his descent into madness. The composition of the play began in Weimar in 1780 but most of it was written between 1786 and 1788, while Goethe was in Italy. He completed the play in 1790. To a “divine comedy,” indeed, in the large style, which should contain a vindication of the ways of God to man, a second part of Faust was as necessary as Dante’s Paradiso was to his Inferno, or the Prometheus Unbound of Æschylus to the Prometheus Bound, or the last four chapters of the Book of Job to the rest of the poem; and when Goethe wrote this Prologue in Heaven—a piece by no .

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