Faust
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Dedication Prelude in the Theater Prologue in Heaven Part 1: Night (Faust’s Study 1) Part 1: Outside the City Gate Part 1: Faust’s Study 2 Part 1: Faust’s Study 3 Part 1: Auerbach’s Wine-Cellar in Leipzig Part 1: Witch’s Kitchen Part 1: Street Part 1: Evening Part 1: Promenade Part 1: The Neighbor’s House Part 1: A Street Part 1: A Garden Part 1: A Summerhouse Part 1: Forest and Cave Part 1: Gretchen’s Room Part 1: Martha’s Garden Part 1: At the Well Part 1: By the Ramparts Part 1: Night Part 1: Cathedral Part 1: Walpurgis Night Part 1: Walpurgis Night’s Dream Part 1: An Expanse of Open Country Part 1: Night: Open Fields Part 1: Prison Part 2: Act 1: A Pleasant Landscape Part 2: Act 1: The Throne Room Part 2: Act 1: The Great Hall Part 2: Act 1: A Garden Part 2: Act 1: A Dark Gallery Part 2: Act 1: Brightly Lit Rooms Part 2: Act 1: Knight’s Hall Part 2: Act 2: A High-Vaulted, Narrow Gothic Room (Faust’s Study 4) Part 2: Act 2: Laboratory Part 2: Act 2: The Pharsalian Fields Part 2: Act 2: Rocky Inlets of the Aegean Sea Part 2: Act 3: Before Menelaus’ Palace at Sparta Part 2: Act 3: Inner Courtyard of a Castle Part 2: Act 3: A Shaded Grove Part 2: Act 4: High Mountains Part 2: Act 4: On a Foothill Part 2: Act 4: The Anti-Emperor’s Tent Part 2: Act 5: A Broad Landscape Part 2: Act 5: Faust’s Palace (Before the Palace) Part 2: Act 5: Faust’s Palace (Faust on the Balcony) Part 2: Act 5: Faust’s Palace (Within the Palace) Part 2: Act 5: Faust’s Palace (The Large Outer Courtyard) Part 2: Act 5: Mountain Gorges
Themes
All Themes Reason and Passion The Human Desire for Meaning and Transcendence Pleasure and Love Parts, Wholes, and Limits Intellectualism and the Value of Words Politics
Quotes
Characters
All Characters Heinrich Faust Mephistopheles Margarete/A Penitent Wagner Homunculus Helen of Troy Euphorion The Emperor The Manager The Dramatic Poet The Player of Comic Roles The Earth Spirit The student/the baccalaureate Valentine The Chancellor-Archbishop The Astrologer Paris Erictho Chiron Manto Anaxagoras Thales Proteus Menelaus The Three Mighty Men Baucis and Philemon Want, Debt, Distress, Care, and Death Pater Ecstaticus, Pater Profundus, and Pater Seraphicus The Blessed Virgin Mary
Symbols
All Symbols Faust’s Study and Wagner’s Laboratory Nature and the Earth Spirit Prisons and Keys
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Faust

by

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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