Margarete becomes pregnant as a consequence. Trusting her lover, Margarete does this, and the two make love in the night, then Faust departs. In order to physically consummate their union, Faust asks his lover to pour three drops of potion into her protective mother’s drink, which will put her mother into a deep sleep. The devil agrees, secretly lavishing treasures upon her and arranging for her and Faust to meet at her neighbor Martha’s house, where Faust declares his love for her, which she returns. It is love at first sight, at least for Faust he demands that Mephistopheles aid him in wooing and winning this young woman. Soon after, Faust sees the beautiful, innocent Margarete (also known by the nickname Gretchen) for the first time, who passes him on a street having just received confession. Now he’ll see a Helen of Troy in every skirt, the devil chortles. Their next stop is the witch’s gloomy kitchen, where Faust sees in a mirror the fantastic image of a beautiful woman that arouses all his passion he also drinks a potion that makes him thirty years younger.
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The deal struck, the two mount Mephistopheles’s cloak, which they can ride through the air to wherever they please.įaust and Mephistopheles’ first stop is Leipzig, where the two provide abundant free wine to patrons in Auerbach’s wine-cellar only for the wine to turn to terrifying fire.
In time, the despairing, pessimistic and restless scholar makes a deal with this subtle devil, going so far as to sign the contract devised between the two with blood: in exchange for a lifetime of the devil’s servitude, Faust, if he is ever absolutely satisfied with earthly life and slips into idleness, must yield up his immortal soul to damnation. In response, Faust intones a magical spell, which forces the poodle to reveal itself for what it really is: the devil Mephistopheles in disguise. The ominous dog follows Faust back to his study, where it begins to growl and grow to a monstrous size. As night falls, however, the two scholars see a black poodle circling them, in whose wake Faust perceives swirling fire. It is a beautiful spring evening, and Faust praises the beauties and harmonies of the natural world. Some time soon after, Faust and Wagner are taking a walk outside the city gates. Consequently, he resolves to kill himself by drinking poison from a vial-but the sounds of church bells and heavenly music restore his will to live. However, Faust breaks off the discussion and dismisses his assistant he is sick to heart with verbiage, the monotony of intellectual pursuits, and he despairs of ever overcoming his limitations. Faust’s assistant in scholarship, Wagner, then enters the study, and he debates with his master on the values of book learning. He summons the Earth Spirit, the force that organizes and sustains nature, but the Spirit resents Faust’s arrogance and vanishes. And so, in his restlessness, he turns to magic, through the arts of which he hopes to understand the very inmost forces of the universe. He has studied and mastered all fields of human knowledge, from law to theology, but is nonetheless dissatisfied. Part 2: Act 5: Faust’s Palace (The Large Outer Courtyard)Īfter a prelude set in the theater, where a production of Faust is to be staged, as well as a prologue in heaven, where the devil Mephistopheles declares to the Lord his intention of tempting the great scholar Heinrich Faust to damnation, the play opens on a narrow, high-vaulted study, where Faust is sitting restlessly.Part 2: Act 5: Faust’s Palace (Within the Palace).Part 2: Act 5: Faust’s Palace (Faust on the Balcony).Part 2: Act 5: Faust’s Palace (Before the Palace).Part 2: Act 3: Inner Courtyard of a Castle.Part 2: Act 3: Before Menelaus’ Palace at Sparta.Part 2: Act 2: Rocky Inlets of the Aegean Sea.Part 2: Act 2: A High-Vaulted, Narrow Gothic Room (Faust’s Study 4).Part 1: Auerbach’s Wine-Cellar in Leipzig.
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