Goethe in Faust and Shelley in Frankenstein: Still the Wretched Fools They Were
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Jeremy Burlingame


Goethe in Faust and Shelley in Frankenstein, wrap their stories around
two men whose mental and physical actions parallel one another. Both stories
deal with characters, who strive to be the übermensch in their world. In Faust,
the striving fellow, Faust, seeks physical and mental wholeness in knowledge
and disaster in lust. In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein struggles for
control over one aspect of nature and disastrously, through the monster, nature
controls him to a much greater degree. Many powers are much too mighty for
mortal souls, a lesson that Frankenstein and Faust learn by the end of their
tales. While voluntarily excommunicating themselves from society, both
characters accomplish a portion of their goal and yet they remain unhappy
because they never control the "perfect" life they have built for themselves.
In Faust, the intelligent gentleman Faust,......

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