Faust Part II: The The
Reader's
Digest Version
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The Expanded World: Am farbigen Abglanz haben wir das Leben (In
the
colorful refraction of light we have life)
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Relation of Part I to Part II
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The Political World
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Antiquity and the Mothers: Classical Walpurgis Night
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Homunculus
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Mephisotopheles/Phorkyas
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Faust in quest of Helen
- Faust's Land Reclamation Project
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In the Beginning was the Deed
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Baucis and Philemon
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The Blinding of Faust
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Faust's Death and the Wager
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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
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The Apotheosis of Faust, the Eternal Feminine, and
Self-Reflexivity
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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
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What has Goethe done to Faust? (Quick Review)
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Introduction of the Gretchen story
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Reversal of expectations
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Reversal of values
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Self-reflexivity and knowledge