Literature
Faust
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Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları · 1808
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Faust, a scholar who has mastered all worldly knowledge yet remains unsatisfied, sells his soul to the Devil (Mephistopheles) in exchange for earthly pleasures, limitless knowledge and power. A tragedy born of the human desire to transcend its limits — and a search for redemption.
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“I want to know what holds the world together at its innermost core.”
“Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast, and one is striving to forsake the other.”
“I am the spirit that always denies.”
“Linger a while — you are so beautiful!”
“Man errs as long as he strives.”
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Goethe wrote this work over a lifetime. Faust is career ambition itself: so hungry for knowledge and power that he hands the pure gem within him over to the devil in exchange for worldly success. Mephistopheles is not really an enemy from outside; he is the merciless ambition within us that says “at any cost.” Cevvela counsels sharing power; Faust wants only to consume it. You find yourself thinking about how you quietly sacrificed your own principles behind every promotion you earned and every sum you made. Success is worth nothing once you have sold your soul.