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Identify Literary & Cultural Aspects from Goethe’s Faust[1]
Description: . Build critical thinking faculties to gain insights on Faust – learn aspects of Goethe’s emerging theme: romantic hero is intellectually dissatisfied. The mundanity, even exploitive nature, of modern society is critiqued in faust. Realize that Faust wants to live more profound life. NOTE: German author & intellectual Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ‘coined’ the phrase ‘world literature’. He also translated many works from Asia.
Faust by Goethe
DIRECTIONS:
Review scene from Goethe’s Faust[2]
Review/update/build on your annotations, on character, set, costumes & gestures of protagonist & the devil (Faust[3] & Mephistopheles[4]).
Handwrite a summary: What happens? What is staging like? Where are the principal characters positioned? *Describe the scene
Now Inquire & reflect: Ask, what are the literary aspects of scene – characterization, metaphors, foreboding, allusions, hero/villain, & on thematic associations: on good/evil, Heaven/Hell, human nature, desire/hubris? Thoughts on an emerging theme?
THEN, write based on your insights/reflections of your ‘critical reading’. Add thoughts on Western ideologies – like from Christianity – and or on literary allusions/elements. And go beyond allegorical interpretations. Meaning, while an allegory simply offers symbolic characters, Goethe shows the complexities of a dissatisfied tragic hero who dwells in a quagmire of [anti]intellectual ponderings. Faust’s irrational choices show us the depths of human morality and immorality. *Allegories do not offer developments of a dynamic character.
ADVICE: Collect quotes & cite them in (minutes: seconds). A) Begin with an introduction by asking a question, B) Add quote(s) as evidence in body paragraphs, & C) Conclude with insights and or new questions. *Always credit the authors / secondary sources. Proofread. Save papers in pdf, MS word doc or Rich Text format. No Google Docs or MAC formatted papers, please. *Revisions are expected. Submit.
[1] For now, define ‘culture’ as the ideas, practices, values of a social group that art speaks to and navigates.
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFdqkJCmD3k&t=10s & background on Goethe & his version of Faust: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Faust-play & on film director Peter Schönhofer: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1100088/
[3] 1500s folklore has Faust as an astronomer/magician who sells his soul to the devil for ‘knowledge’. Goethe adds to Faust the character by his irrational obsessions. This change is understood as a critique of Enlightenment – of man’s obsession with ‘reason’ & modern society. Faustian archetypal qualities are those where one sacrifices one’s own spiritual integrity for greed / vanity. Artistic & popular adaptations are Phantom of the Opera & Netflix Lucifer: Trailer of Lucifer, the devil who ironically seems more moral than 21st American society.
[4] His name in Greek means “He who shuns the light / Not a lover of light.” Yet, he knows who he is & is confident.
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