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Goethe's Faust

Introduction

Goethe's Faust is about two supernatural wagers. One of these wagers come up in the prologue and sets the overarching conflict of the narrative. The scene starts in heaven and below are two different visions of the world. God is given a report by the angels that his creation is amazing and beautiful. They give details about the powerful forces of god and how the amazing creation of god highlights his glory and benevolence. Each of the angels reflect a specific recurring process of the earth which includes the sun, day, night, calm of weather and the power. All of these symbolize the completeness of God himself and his creation. On the other side, Mephistopheles gives a very different view. The point of view that he presents is not that of nature but it is about humanity. Mephistopheles does not give account of the world and its goodness and beauty, but he observes the world and sees the amount of misery that prevails amongst the humans.

Discussion

The argument of god with Mephistopheles is about his divine belief regarding that in the end, humanity will raise above all the evil in the world and all humans will be faithful to their creator. To give an example regarding this belief, god brings Faust into the conversation. Mephistopheles is very doubtful about the character of Faust and wonders if he has that good a character as god believes and so, the two of them make a wager over the soul of Faust.

This scene that takes place in the heaven is just like the story of Job, from the Hebrew Bible's book. In the story of the bible, a wager takes place between god and Satan regarding the servant of god, Job. Satan believes that he can provoke Job to curse god and god believes that Job will always remain loyal to him only. Satan starts to make the life of Job miserable by taking away all his possessions, destroying everything in his life including friends, health and family. But in the end, job remains loyal to god and does not curse him and so, he is rewarded by god with double the amount of blessings.

Just like Job, the character of Faust also highlights that main characteristics of the nature of human beings and the relation ship between human nature and god. The prologue occurs out of the territory of ...