Faust Part II: The The Reader's Digest Version

1. The Expanded World: Am farbigen Abglanz haben wir das Leben (In the colorful refraction of light we have life)
2. Relation of Part I to Part II
3. The Political World
4. Antiquity and the Mothers: Classical Walpurgis Night
• Homunculus
• Mephisotopheles/Phorkyas
• Faust in quest of Helen
5. Faust's Land Reclamation Project
• In the Beginning was the Deed
• Baucis and Philemon
• The Blinding of Faust
6. Faust's Death and the Wager
• Such activity I would like to see
To stand on free soil with a free people
To that moment I could say
Tarry awhile, you are so beautiful
The trace of my earthly days
Will not be erased for eons
In anticipation of such high happiness
I now enjoy the highest moment
7. The Apotheosis of Faust, the Eternal Feminine, and Self-Reflexivity
• All that passes
Is but a metaphor
The insufficient--
Here it happens
The undescribable
Here it is done
The eternal feminine
Draws us forward/upward
8. What has Goethe done to Faust? (Quick Review)
• Introduction of the Gretchen story
• Reversal of expectations
• Reversal of values
• Self-reflexivity and knowledge