Goethe's Faust

the supernatural, a most obscure form of Nature, Faust is then introduced to the play’s (and one of literature’s most iconic tricksters) Devil, Mephistopheles. Trickery and deception are present from their initial encounter as Mephistopheles appears in the guise of a scholar in order to gain Faust’s trust and tempt him: “Then this was our poodle's core!/ Simply a traveling scholar? The casus makes me laugh” (Goethe, Scene III, lines 145-146). Faust is not entirely fooled, but he does find…

First and foremost, Romanticism was an art movement in the nineteenth century in response to industrialism and the Neoclassical era. They rebelled against the sciences, reason and conformities of society and embraced qualities such as individualism, imagination, intuition, eccentricity, and emotion. A major component of Romanticism is nature. Romantics tend to incorporate nature in many of their works whether it be a painting or a poem. One could say that they were very raw artists. Inspiration…

popular around the world ( Poets). In college Goethe studied law and went to lectures history, political science anatomy, surgery, and chemistry ( Literature). Goethe eventually died in 1832 right after he finished his two part poetic drama called Faust ( Literature). Joann Wolfgang von Goethe created many famous poems…

Imagine life without light. Imagine coming home at night and being unable to turn on a lamp or not having street lights in the neighborhood. We can accredit the light source and power we have today to Nikola Tesla. Tesla was a Serbian inventor who came to the United States in order to build off of Thomas Edison’s findings of how light works and establish the idea of alternating current (AC) electrical power. Because of his extensive research and hardwork, Tesla had created a legacy for himself…

Gothic literature brings to life the darker side of tragedies by creating an atmosphere of horror and suspense as well as embodying supernatural affairs to the plot. Gothic fiction also considers the motif of the inevitability of fate. Horace Walpole surfaced this style of fiction in the mid 1700s with the novel, The Castle of Otranto. His story concerns all the elements that constitute Gothic literature. The term originated as an expression criticizing the art and architecture of the time,…

Boris Thomashefsky was a Ukrainian-born, later American, Jewish singer and actor who became one of the biggest stars in Yiddish theatre. Thomashefsky was born in a town near Kiev, Ukraine, he moved to the United States in 1881, at the age of 12. A year later, barely a teenager, he was mostly responsible for the first performance of Yiddish theatre in New York City, in what was to become the Yiddish Theater District, and has been credited as the pioneer of Beet soup Belt entertainment.…

fascinating era of Romanticism emphasized the emotional and spiritual representation of the unattainable ideal. It was a very nostalgic grace of past ages and predilection for exotic themes. We all know that seeing is more important than hearing. Back then sound was extremely important and detailed realistic sets were not the norm. The orchestra seats which had up till then been the cheap seats became more valuable. The upper galleries were the cheapest. Audiences especially in the upper…

This is an essay especially created to illustrate the, quite few, but evident, the flaws of the English language. Though easy to learn, versatile and beautiful, the political evolution and the political power shift, have created a certain stereotype, and people tend to write, some sort of, robotic sentences, using a lot of words to express a short, simple message. Humanity didn’t do this on its own, politics and snobbery played crucial roles in this development. Instead of using simplicity, we…

Journal entry #1 Chapter 24 “ The Promise of Reason” – “The time will… come when the sun will shine only on free men who know no other master but their reason.” Antoine Nicolas de Condorcet. Hobbes and Locke were influenced by Hugo Grotius Idea of a political contract based on the natural laws. Locke related human beings as free, equal, and able to separate good from bad. Hobbes on the other hand, view us humans as being greedy, selfish, and aggressive. He also thought that we were nasty, poor,…

The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Professor’s Analysis “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” (Wilde 3). There are many debates about the greatest book that ever existed, and this debate will continue to rage on but what is undeniable is that The Picture of Dorian Gray is definitely a well written book. The morality of this book however is a different issue altogether as this book discusses many different themes from youth…