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 Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 3:44 pm
I was aware of the others. Like that dude's house I accidentally ended up in.
*Shudders*
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Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:34 pm
Mooby: I haven't read Goethe's Faust. How is it different from Marlowe's?
(I realise that this might be a little hard to answer if you haven't read Marlowe's.)
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Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 8:16 pm
From what I've heard, Goethe's story is almost a complete inversion of Marlowe's story.
Mephistopheles, while still the "bad guy," is Faust's liberator, and Faust wins in the end.
Also, his version is pantheistic rather than Christian.
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Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 9:25 pm
Interesting differences! I'll try and find a copy in our library.
It's always fascinated me how there can be so many different versions of a different myth or legend, especially when you look at things like the classic hero tale, which has hundreds of thousands of incarnations, all of which differ based on the society that created them and the ideals they represent. Even villains and our perceptions of them change dramatically between what are essentially re-tellings of the same basic story.
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