Essays on Faust

A Lithuanian proverb goes like this, “As one devil goes out, another one comes in.” Faust by Johann Wolfgang Goethe and The Devil and Tom Walker are all famous literary pieces based off of the classical Faust Legend. The main character of both stories lusts…

The most prominent points in the U.S. Declaration of independence that our forefathers in my opinion were making are ; All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit…

Fantastical, gripping, emotional, and never dull, Charles Gounod’s Faust has always been an operatic favorite—but among the tweaks and liberties modern-day performances of opera take, can a modernized retelling do this classic justice? In its second revival under the direction of Des McAnuff (Winner for…

“Romanticism was a reaction against an emotionless rationality and structured literature that defined the Age of Enlightenment and Reason. Faust personifies his dichotomy on his way to becoming the Romantic hero” (Hardison, Expert Answers, Enotes, Print). Goethe’s Faust, was not entirely considered romantic writing, but…