Gretchen-Frage: Faust’s Romantic sermon.

MargaretSay, as regards religion, how you feel.3415 I know that you are a dear, good man, Yet, for you, it seems, it has no appeal. FaustLeave that alone, child! You feel I’m kind to you: For Love I’d give my blood, my life too. I’ll rob no man of his church and faith.3420 MargaretThat’s not …

A Short Review of Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

Please forgive my comparative literature I'm about do, but I believe it must be done. It matters how one reads a book. Sometimes the main character shouldn't be whom one should cares about. Part 1 of Faust is essentially the tragedy of Gretchen. Gretchen is just a young, pious girl, who is tricked and seduced …

Goethe: To live is to burn

Tell a wise person, or else keep silent, because the mass man will mock it right away. I praise what is truly alive, what longs to be burned to death. In the calm water of the love-nights, where you were begotten, where you have begotten, a strange feeling comes over you, when you see the …