Historical, cultural, and Literary background:

 WHY GOETHE’S FAUST IS PROBABLY THE BEST-KNOWN

VERSION?

 THE MAJOR THEME OF FAUST?

 WHY MEDIEVAL AND MODERN MYTHS RELATING TO

THE FAUST LEGEND HAVE TAKEN ON MORE AMBIGUOUS
AND MORALLY FRAUGHT INTERPRETATIONS?
Biography of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
 WHO IS JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE?
WAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST OF WORLD LITERATURE
 GOETHE WAS BORN IN ?
AUGUST 28, 1749, IN FRANKFURT-AM-MAIN, GERMANY
 MARRIAGE OF GOETHE
IN 1806 GOETHE MARRIAGE
 GOETHE WAS DEAD IN?
HE DIED MARCH 22, 1832
 Life of Goethe
 HE WAS EDUCATED AT HOME BY HIS FATHER AND HIS TUTOR UNTIL 1765,
THEN HIS FATHER SEND HIM TO LEIPZIG TO STUDY LAW.

 HE LOVES TO STUDY HIS FATHER'S PROFESSION HIS FATHER HAS

STUDIED LAW. SO HE WAS INTERESTING WITH LAW.

 WHEN GOETHE WAS IN LEIPZIG HE START TO WRITE A LYRIC POEM. AND

COMPLETED HIS FIRST TWO LYRIC POEM PLAYS.
 THE IMPORTANT JOB OF GOETHE

 GOETHE COMPOSED LITERARY WORKS AND ESTABLISHED ARTISTIC

PRINCIPLES THAT HAD A PROFOUND INFLUENCE ON HIS
CONTEMPORARIES THROUGHOUT EUROPE.

 THE WORK THAT GOETHE DID ON GERMANY LITERARY IS LIKE

WHAT DID SHAKESPEARE IN THE ENGLISH LITERARY.
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 BECAUSE OF ILLNESS, GOETHE
COULDN'T STUDY LAW IN
LEIPZIG, SO AFTER THE ILLNESS
HE START HIS STUDYING IN THE
STRASBOURG AND COMPLETED
THE COURSE IN 1771.
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 GOETHE, RETURN TO FRANKFURT, AND HIS MIND WAS FULL OF THE
GREAT IDEA.

 HE DEVOTED HIMSELF TO PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES.

 HE WROTE HIS FIRST IMPORTANT METRICAL DRAMA, GOTZ VON

BERLICHINGEN IN (1772).

 AND THEN HE WROTE HIS FIRST SHORT NOVEL CALLED THE SORROWS
OF YOUNG WERTHER IN (1774)

 SO HE BECAME ONE OF THE FAMOUS LITERARY ARTISTS IN GERMANY

Job of Goethe
HE WAS INVITED BY YOUNG DUKE KARL AUGUST
OF WEIMAR TO GIVE HIM SOME JOB IN HIS
COUNTRY LIKE:
1. ADMINISTRATIVE AND ADVISORY POST.
2. PRIVY COUNSELOR.
3. AS HEAD OF THE MINISTRIES OF FINANCE,
AGRICULTURE, AND MINES.
return from Italy to Germany after trip:
 HE RETIRED FROM HIS JOB AND HE FOCUSED ON HIS
STUDIES AND WRITING.

 HIS FRIENDSHIP WITH THE DUKE CONTINUED

 THE DUKE GIVING HIM THE MATERIAL SECURITY HIS WORK

REQUIRED.
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• HIS SCIENTIFIC STUDIES INCLUDED ORIGINAL RESEARCHES IN BOTANY,
ANATOMY, GEOLOGY, AND OPTICS.

 HE DEVELOPED POLITICAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS.

 ACCOMPANIED THE DUKE ON A MILITARY CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE

FRENCH IN 1792.

 LATER ON, HE WROTE COMMENTARIES ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

AND THE NAPOLEONIC WARS.
Literary production:
 THE COMPLETE EDITION OF GOETHE'S VAST AND UNEVEN LITERARY
PRODUCTION COMPRISES 143 VOLUMES

1. FAUST, PART ONE (COMPLETED 1808)

2. FAUST, PART TWO (COMPLETED 1832)
3. TORQUATO-TASSO (1780)
4. IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS (1787)
5. EGMONT (1788)
6. PANDORA (1810)
 SOME EXAMPLE OF GOETHE NOVELS :
1. WILHELM MEISTER'S APPRENTICESHIP (1796)
2. THE ELECTIVE AFFINITIES (1809)
3. WILHELM MEISTER'S JOURNEYS (1829)
Some example of poetry
1. THE FOX (1794)
2. ROMAN ELEGIES (1795)
3. HERMANN AND DOROTHEA (1798)
4. WEST-EASTERN DIVAN (1819)
5. ENIEN (1797)
literary characteristics of the author
literature and in-depth analysis of the
characters:
MAJOR CHARACTERS:
 FAUST: IS THE PLAY'S HERO. (PROTAGONIST)

 GRETCHEN: IS A LABORER YOUNG LADY WITH WHOM FAUST FALLS

FRANTICALLY INFATUATED.

 MEPHISTOPHELES: IS THE PLAY'S MAIN ADVERSARY. (ANTAGONIST)

MINOR CHARACTERS:
 THE LORD: SHOWS UP IN THE "INTRODUCTION IN HEAVEN.
 GABRIEL: IS ONE OF THE LORD'S HEAVENLY MESSENGERS.
 RAPHAEL: IS ONE OF THE LORD'S HEAVENLY MESSENGERS.
 MICHAEL: IS ONE OF THE LORD HOLY MESSENGERS.
 THE EARTH: SPIRIT IS ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL SPIRITS OF
THE PLAY.
 STUDENT: SHOWS UP IN FAUST'S REVIEW TO LEARN UNDER
FAUST'S TUTELAGE.
 ALTMAYER: IS A PERSON IN THE SCENE AUER BACH’S
CELLAR.
 SIEBEL: IS THE BARKEEP IN AUER BACH’S CELLAR.
Minor characters:
 WAGNER: IS A STUDENT AND HE STUDIES UNDER FAUSTUS AND HE IS INTRISTING WITH ALCHEMY.

 MANAGER: THE MANAGER APPEARS IN THE SCENE "PRELUDE IN THE THEATER. SO THE MANAGER
TRY TO GET PEOPLE TO WATCH FAUSTUS PLAY ON THE STAGE SO HE TRY MANY WAYS TO GET MASSES
 POET: THE POET APPEARS IN THE SCENE "PRELUDE IN THE THEATER. THE POET REPRESENT THE
ARTISTIC SIDE OF THE THEATRE AND THE POET CONCERNED ARTISTIC AUTONOMY OF THE DRAMA
 COMEDIAN: THE COMEDIAN, OR CLOWN, APPEARS IN THE SCENE "PRELUDE IN THE THEATER.THE
COMEDIAN REPRESENT THE ENTERTAINMENT VALUE OF DRAMA. EVERY TIME WE SAY THE
COMEDIAN MAKE AUDIENCE FEEL HAPPY WIN THEY PERFORMING ON STAGE.
 MARTHA: MARTHA IS GRETCHEN'S NEIGHBOR WHO PROVIDES THE MEANS BY WHICH
MEPHISTOPHELES IS ABLE TO CONCOCT FAUST AND GRETCHEN'S LOVE AFFAIR.
 VALENTINE: VALENTINE IS GRETCHEN'S BROTHER AND A SOLDIER RETURNING HOME FROM WAR. 
 WITCH: THE WITCH FIRST APPEARS IN HER CAVERN, BREWING A CONCOCTION THAT INITIATES
FAUST'S BURNING PASSION FOR GRETCHEN.
 FROSCH: IS A CHARACTER IN THE SCENE "AUERBACH'S CELLAR." HE IS IN LOVE WITH A GIRL THAT
REFUSES TO RECIPROCATE AND REPRESENTS THE FIRST YEAR STUDENT'S NAIVETE.