Goethes_Faust

Goethes Faust Faust’s Trials Goethe’s Faust probes the belief that God knows man will err because he has reason, and free will. God does not damn man for sins he commits, because it is in his nature to err as long as they strive, but rather condemns those who ceases to strive towards any goal, and in doing so forsake God‘s will for peopling the earth. Giving proof to the statement “Idle hands do the Devil’s work.” Faust journey throughout the reading can be broken into three parts. He makes a pact with the Devil, (Removing himself from God’s path). He flounders along on that dark path for a number of years, (Following his desires, though they may not be what God had intended, yet still striving for something). Lastly Faust is saved and taken to paradise to be with God,( Thus ending up at the Destination that God has intended for him from the time of Faust‘s creation.) Let us first see why Faust should be, by traditional examples of sin, damned instead of saved. Faust’s first damnable act, (act 6 Faust‘s study 1), is his calling upon the devil, using pentagrams, and other rites forbidden by Christian tradition. Being a learned man, faust, god, path, devil, saved, sin, man, faust’s, because, strive, knows, forbidden, act, time, statement, lines, knowledge, god’s, church, sins, should, scene, salvation, power, over, night, mephistopheles, margarita, life, instead, following, first, fall, err, earth