Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus (c. 1594) is an energetic, imaginative and often funny man who, nevertheless (despite his supposed search for infinite knowledge) makes his first request from Mephistopheles “a hot wench.” Over the course of the play he becomes cruder and more unrestrained and at the end of Act V is deservedly dragged off to hell by “lively demons.” Goethe’s Faust is more complex and nuanced and (as the Preface tells you) escapes damnation in Part II despite having sold his soul and enjoyed the benefits for several decades. In your response essay, locate evidences in Goethe’s text (i.e. Part I) that this Faust is a different kind of protagonist–a hero?–and that Goethe is, in some sense, offering him to the reader for admiration.
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