Faust and the Juxtaposition of Good and Evil Essay -- Literary Analysi

In Faust Part One, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, uses different dispositions in his play, like God, Mephistopheles, and Gretchen to portray the collocation of good and bad. We are introduced to Faust, who as a mere human makes mistakes passim the play under some influence of the devil. Therefore it is difficult to drop a line him off as a completely evil being. However, Destros argumentation is extremely useful in helping to interpret Fausts shell in a very levelheaded manner. Destro believes that Faust is a tragic fighter for the purposes of the play, but as a person Faust is bad because of his actions and lack of information up until the near end of his life. Faust was a very selfish character who caused death and despair because of his carelessness and for that he is bad. Although Faust does show feelings of remorse and misdeed in the dungeon scene, for majority of the play, he is flawed and though Mephistopheles manipulated him, Faust had the effect to maintain control ov er his own actions and urges therefore he is a bad or negative character. Faust is a fairly troubled individual. That is a major part of the play. Faust is not like typical humans of his judgment of conviction he is very curious, self-righteous and extreme and as Destro says, Faust has his own comment of morality that are not exactly typical (Page 60). Which helps the reader to clear Fausts character can be seen as highly snarly from an ordinary moral point of view which is why Faust, regardless of his wickedness will never fully change and the pursuit of trying to win moral clarity and substance will lead to nowhere because he is already very flawed (Destro 60). Essentially, Destro means that Faust was doomed because of his personal views and his trust to ga... ...ity in hell, unable to ever experience love again. Works Cited1. Andre, Alt, Peter. Mephistopheles Principles On the Construction of Evil in Goethes Faust I. Modern Language Review Vol. 6.1 (2011) 149-63. Print. 2. Destro, Alberto==. The inculpatory Hero, or the Tragic Salvation of Faust. A Companion to Goethes Faust Parts II and I. Rochester, NY Camden House, 2001. 56-75. Print.3. Colavito, Carl N. Educating for Democracy Lessons from Goethes Faust Colavito, Carl Nicholas. Diss. University of Florida, 2010. Miami Dissertation Abstract, 2010. Print.4. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von, and Peter Salm. Faust, First Part. New York Bantam, 1962. Print.5. Murray, Chris. Review shew Give It Up in Despair Coleridge and Goethes Faust.Romanticism The Journal of Romantic Culture and rebuke Vol 15.1 (2009) 1-15. Print.