Faust. Der Tragödie erster Teil

“Where there is much light, there is also much shadow.” This quote from Goethe’s “Götz von Berlichingen” could all too easily be applied to his driven Doctor Faust: Having striven all his life to gain knowledge and insight, he despairs in his old age at his high expectations and the feeling that he can never really know what “holds the world together at its core”. He curses reason and science and is more than ready to follow up his great words with wild deeds, even taking his own life when the devilishly attractive Mephistopheles appears and invites Faust to switch to the “dark side of power” – at no less a price than his soul and at the expense of many others. …