The midterm will cover all the material we've handled in class up through Rosemary's Baby. The midterm will consist of a series of ten identification and six short answer questions. This studyguide provides you with a list of names, terms, concepts and passages you should know. The questions will be drawn from this list.

• monism/dualism
• Zoroastrianism/Zarathustra
• Manicheism/Mani
• Origen and Apocatastasis
• Genesis, chapter 3
• Gnosticism and  felix culpa
• bene-ha-elohim (sons of the Lord)
• mal'ak Yahweh (voice of the Lord)
  
• Satan and devil (plus etymologies)
• Mephistopheles (plus etymologies)
• Matthew, chapter 4
• Faustbook
• Spiess
• melancholy
• Faustian modes
• crossroads
• Reformation, Humanism, Protestantism, Alchemy and Magic
  
• Erasmus
  
• Martin Luther
• Melanchthon
  
• Wittenberg
• nullus diabolus nullus redemptor
• sola scriptura and sola fides
• Malleus maleficarum
• Luther and the Devil
• Luther and marriage
• Christopher Marlowe
• self-reflexivity, play within a play, framing
• self-reflexivity, knowledge and the fall
• Satan and the origins of cinema
• laterna magica
  
• Doppelganger
• George Méliès
• The Student of Prague
• Hanns Heinz Ewers
• Alistair Crowley
  
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Die Leiden des Jungen Werther
• function of distancing devices in Goethe
• Prelude in the Theater
• casting of Faust/poet, Lord/director, Mephisto/clown
• The Book of Job
• Streben und Irren (Striving and Erring)
• meaning/function of evil in Goethe's Faust
  
• Gospel of John, chapter 1
• logos
• theme of incarnation in Faust
• the function of Mephisto in Goethe
• the terms of the wager
• Augenblick (the moment)
• pact vs. wager
• Gretchen/Margarete
• Walpurgis Night and Walpurgis Night's Dream
• the Brocken
• Euphorion
• the eternal feminine
• Roman Polanski
• Anton LaVey
• motherhood and devil's pact
• the dream-rape sequence

• "In our narrow house of boards, bestride / The whole creation, far and wide; / Move thoughtfully, but fast as well, / From heaven through the world to hell."
• "Es irrt der Mensch, solang er strebt." [Man errs as long as he will strive.]
• "Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast"
• The bible translation passage in Faust
• "If to the moment I should say: / Abide, you are so fair [beautiful]!"
• "Im farbigen Abglanz haben wir das Leben." [In many-hued reflection we have life.]
• "Then to the moment I might say: / Abide you are so fair!
• "This is no dream. This is really happening!"