Essay Galaxy - Goethe in Faust and Shelley in Frankenstein: Still the Wretched Fools They Were Before
Goethe in Faust and Shelley in Frankenstein: Still the Wretched Fools They Were
Before
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 �bermensch 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
character....
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