LITERATURE QUESTIONS
RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA
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Mephistopheles must give Faust complete satisfaction.
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Mephistopheles must give Faust omniscience.
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Mephistopheles must give Gretchen to Faust.
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Mephistopheles must give Faust control over the Earth Spirit.
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Mephistopheles must give Faust power over death.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Faust makes a pact (an agreement) with Mephistopheles who promises him all his soul can wish for: fine living, gold, women and honour. Faust signs the pact with his blood. Faust uses magic in the hope that it will tell him everything about life. However, in the end Mephistopheles wins his bet.
Detailed explanation-2: -Summary of the story He makes a bargain with Faust: Mephistopheles will serve Faust with his magic powers for a set number of years, but at the end of the term, the Devil will claim Faust’s soul, and Faust will be eternally enslaved.
Detailed explanation-3: -Considered in this philosophical context, Faust’s many adventures all communicate the message that to find happiness man must learn to conquer the lower elements of his nature and live constructively within the framework imposed on him.
Detailed explanation-4: -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is perhaps best known for The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), the first novel of the Sturm und Drang movement, and for Faust (Part I, 1808; Part II, 1832), a play about a man who sells his soul to the Devil that is sometimes considered Germany’s greatest contribution to world literature.