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Goethe, Faust, Part 1: Unit 3 of 3 Sacrament WRITE NOW Scene 15 is among the best‐known in Faust, Part 1, Georgia Southern University guidelines direct students partly because Franz Schubert created a soprano to spend at least twice as much time doing homework version of it called "Gretchen am spinnrade" for a class as they spend in the class itself. In other ("Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel"; 1814), a lied or song words: if your class session is 100 minutes long, you that we may have time to discuss in lecture. Write one should devote three hours and ten minutes to sentence to summarize the state of Gretchen's mind homework. and heart as revealed in Scene 15. Professors report that one of the biggest problems in Question 3 World Literature 2 courses is students' failure to read In Scene 16, Faust has reconnected with Gretchen; the mandated texts. These "Write Now" exercises are a again, they use Martha's garden, which may remind smart way to deal with the challenge. As you're some readers of the hortus conclusus or enclosed completing this assignment, bear in mind that our garden associated with the Virgin Mary in much lectures and examinations take the exercises as their starting point. medieval literature. The two discuss religion, with Margaret accusing Faust of not "respect[ing] the Holy Goethe, Faust, Part 1: Unit 3 of 3 Sacrament" and eschewing "confession, or mass" (page 4). Exasperated, Gretchen demands, "Do you believe in God?" (page 4), but Faust fails to provide a straightforward "yes" or "no" answer. Part of his response sounds like the Enlightenment Argument from Design: "Don't the heavens arch above us? Doesn't earth lie here under our feet?" (page 4). Although Faust proceeds to invoke "Joy! Heart! Love! God!" what in the end does he say "is all" (page 4)? On the same page, who or what does Margaret admit to "hat[ing]…in my innermost soul"? Question 4 On page 5, Faust reveals his desire to become more physically intimate with Margaret—to "clasp you to my Question 1 heart." What problem does she anticipate were they to Scene 14 ("Forest and Cavern") opens with Faust alone, get together in her bedroom, and what solution does meditating on how a "[s]ublime spirit"—which may be Faust provide in response? The scene concludes, Faust Mephistopheles, Nature, or Love—has "[given] me all…I learns that Mephistopheles has eavesdropped on his asked for" (page 1). Perhaps ambivalently, he deems conversation with Gretchen—and that he intends to Mephistopheles "a companion, | Whom I can no longer "take pleasure" in sex between Faust and Gretchen. do without" (page 1). Speaking of the devil, he appears Angry, Faust calls Mephistopheles an "Abortion" from and taunts Faust for having retreated into a "hole" (a "the filth and fire of hell." cavern) or for "enthroning [himself] in the wood" Question 5 because overwhelmed with desire for Margaret (aka Scene 17 occurs at a "fountain" (called a "well" in other Gretchen). How, according to Mephistopheles on page translations), where Gretchen's friend Lisbeth imparts 2, does Margaret spend her days? On the same page, what news about their mutual acquaintance Barbara— what matter or phenomenon does Faust "envy"? As the and what additional news about Barbara's boyfriend? scene concludes on the following page, Faust imagines What does Lisbeth mean by declaring, "[N]ow the Margaret living in Romantic fashion in a "hut" upon an flower is gone!" FYI: a bridal wreath signified premarital "Alpine field" beside a "thundering" waterfall. purity, and the practice of scattering chaff (the inedible Question 2 1 casings of seeds) outside a door was a means to shame the polymath Goethe conducted geological research. a woman. Noted for mining, the Hartz also has supernatural Question 6 associations, such as the "will o' the wisp" (page 10). Its Scene 18 consists of a prayer—"Help me! Oh, save tallest peak, the Brocken (3,743 feet), often experiences me…" (page 6)—spoken by Gretchen at a shrine what our text calls "vapor ris[ing]" and "cloud dedicated to the Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Sorrows sweep[ing]" (page 11). In fact the magnification of one's (Mater Dolorosa). Mary was associated with Seven shadow when it falls upon the mist that surrounds the Sorrows, among them losing the boy Jesus in the Broken is called the Brocken Specter. Wlapurgisnacht Temple at Jerusalem and witnessing Jesus's death upon falls on 30 April, and it's the Christianization of a pagan the cross. Scene 19 opens with Valentine's brother, who spring and fertility ritual where bonfires are lit to ward recalls bragging among his fellow soldiers about off chaotic evil spirits: "[a] hundred fires burning in a Gretchen's being "the flower | Of maidenhood row" (page 12). The celebration has a carnival‐like [virginity]" (page 6). What's problematic about the atmosphere, with people temporarily letting going of circumstances in which he typically made that boast? their prim‐and‐proper everyday selves in favor of Valentine waits outside Gretchen's door, hoping to indulging in the Passions. Offer two examples from catch her lover. When Faust and Mephistopheles Scene 21 of references to awe‐inducing physical appear, the latter performs a seductive, Gretchen‐ features, such as cliffs, rock‐outcrops, rivers, trees, or directed song (accompanying himself on the zither); wind. In addition, cite two instances where a character what's the basic message of his "few moralizing bars" or characters seem overwhelmed and/or disoriented. In (page 7)? Interestingly, Faust's attention is primarily on all cases, answer using complete sentences (i.e. don't convincing Mephistopheles to obtain "a jewel, or a ring" just paste in quotations without any words of your to secure Gretchen's sexual favors. Valentine smashes own); also, be sure to include page‐number references. the zither, after which he engages in a sword‐fight Question 9 against Faust, who Mephistopheles aids. When Faust The Walpurgis Night episode highlights multiple witches exits, what does the dying Valentine tell Gretchen to be and other supernatural beings. Perhaps the most "by proclamation" (page 8)? honored is Baubo: "Baubo goes first! Then, all the crew! Question 7 (page 11). Using a reliable source, such as Encyclopedia Scene 20 sees Gretchen participating—and then Britannica (even Wikipedia will do on this occasion), fainting—in a well‐attended Mass at the city's Roman find an image of the Baubo figure ande mak a comment Catholic cathedral, during which the choir performs Dies about what—in your opinion—Goethe is trying to Irae ("The Day of Wrath"), a medieval poem about convey by having her '[go] first." FYI: among the female God's final judgment of every human being. archetypes in the episode, we find Lilith (page 13), Commentators had offered several interpretations of reputed to be Adam's first wife, made from the same the Evil Spirit whose voice torments Gretchen. It may be earth as Adam, not his rib. her guilty conscience. Alternatively, it may be the Question 10 institution of the Church, which can't or won't Goethe uses the Walpurgis Night episode to comment acknowledge her genuine remorse. In this scene, her on how the older generation, represented by the likes brother's demise isn't Gretchen's primary concern. Over of the General and the Minister, feels disconnected whose death does she feel guilt most sharply? from modern times. The Minister declares, "I praise the Question 8 good old days…That was a real golden age" (page 13). In the scene with Valentine, Mephistopheles looks Dancing with a young witch, Faust invokes a dream of forward to a festival called Walpurgis Night, and that "[t]wo lovely apples"; for his part, Mephistopheles, event occurs in Scene 21. The setting is the Hartz: a who's partnered with an old witch, recalls an oneiric (or range of tall mountains in northern Germany in which dream) vision of a "monstrous crack" in an old tree that 2 "pleased me…despite its size" (pages 13‐14). This bawdy talk discomforts or disgusts a Rationalist called Nicolaí, who—finding Romanticism's emphasis on the Passions, the Sublime, and the Volk hard to deal with—protests, "We're enlightened now, so take yourselves off" (page 14). Following this exchange, what image "[t]raveling slowly…painfully" does Faust see? Identify two details of the image that especially catch Faust's attention. Why do you think Goethe presents this image as a follow‐on to the sexually charged exchanges with the old and young witches and Nicolaí's moralizing? Question 11 An extension of the Walpurgis Night episode, Scene 22 may be read as Goethe's re‐making of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. It features characters from that late‐sixteenth‐century drama, not least the fairy king Oberon, the fairy queen Titania, and the mischievous wood‐spirit Puck. While fantasy dominates this portion of the text (there's a talking wind‐vane, fro example), there are, in addition, speaking parts for real‐ life characters, such as Goethe and August von Hennings, a Danish critic that attacked Goethe through his magazine Genius of the Age. While Scene 22 uses a distinctive poetic style, Scene 23 ("Gloomy Day") is written in prose. What, according to its first speech, has befallen the "kind, unfortunate creature" Gretchen (page 17)? On page 18, what does Mephistopheles proclaim he "can't undo"? What does he mean here? Question 12 The twenty‐fifth and final Scene occurs in a dungeon. According to Gretchen (aka Margaret), how did her baby die (page 20)? How does she respond when Faust, possessing cell keys supplied by Mephistopheles, informs her that "[t]he door is open" (page 20)? Offer one piece of evidence from the Dungeon Scene to support the argument that Gretchen has become insane.
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