Johann Wolfgangvon Goethe

Faust

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Romanticism Intensity Innovation Irreverence Insubordination Individualism Imagination

Modern MythsDon JuanFaustDon QuixoteRobinson CrusoeGreat Expectations

“Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.”

William Blake

Synthesis

Thesis Antithesis

Hegel’s dialectic

Director PoetTime PermanenceWorld SpiritSight HearingFood PoetrySociety NatureDeeds WordsOther Self

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Job

Felix culpa

As in “felicitous” and “Feliz Navidad”

As in “culprit”

Cyclicality

Romantic Despair

I heard the sky-lark warbling in the sky; And I bethought me of the playful hare: Even such a happy Child of earth am I; Even as these blissful creatures do I fare; Far from the world I walk, and from all care; But there may come another day to me— Solitude, pain of heart, distress, and

poverty.