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Rating: "...picturesque scenes, little clarity, a thousand errors, and a flash of truth..."
This is how this dramatic work opens, which talks about a man who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for earthly favors and all knowledge.
Goethe, perhaps the most brilliant mind of the contemporary era, takes up this well-known legend and makes it immortal.
Eternal conflict between Id and Conscience, between God and the Devil, Faust, a tormented soul, cannot be satisfied and happy with the world; as a scientist and man of reason, he does not listen to his feelings and gradually becomes sad and lonely, hating humankind.
By distancing himself from feelings, he distances himself from faith... and in despair, he seeks suicide, but the heavenly sound of bells makes him desist from the insane act.
The devil, who appears to Faust in the guise of a black dog, will take his soul in exchange for earthly pleasures, but Faust will meet Margaret, whom he will dishonor while possessed by the devil, and then she will die.
A work dense and rich with religious, alchemical, and historical references, it will prove to be the most authoritative legacy of this immense author. In the end, the devil kills Faust, but since God understood that he was a good person searching for faith, He sends him directly to heaven. Therefore, Faust is saved by God's grace thanks to his constant quest, in combination with memories of Margaret with God in the form of the Eternal Feminine...
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