While reading
Faust, I now can say some faults and virtues of Mephistopheles, Faust and Margaret.
- Mephistopheles:
- He is Faust's antagonist. As a master of disguise, he appears always in the play as someone else. He is the reason for Faust being attracted to Margaret.
- In my opinion, Mephistopheles controls and manipulate Faust in his own ways, for his selfish ends.
- Margaret:
- She is completely the counter part of Faust, she is the foil of Faust. Faust is attracted by this part different from what he is and represents.
- She represents all the ethic code of humanity. Her pureness is symbolic to the rules of religion, which most of the humans are terribly attached to.
- Faust:
- He is ambitious, he seeks more and more power and is always in seek of more knowledge, but he is also empty from "the inside". His corruptness caused by knowledge, made him not care about filling that hollow space.
- Somehow, from my point of view, I can see some relation between Faust and humankind. Just as Faust, mankind is always seeking more power, men are ambitious and selfish, only caring about their aims, and only giving others importance, if he would get something in exchange.
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