Faust Gretchen

"My peace is gone" —one of the lines that lingers when one considers the wealth of quotations from Goethe's Faust. A quote that reflects the dilemma of Margarete, called Gretchen. The well-to-do scholar Dr. Heinrich Faust, on the other hand, is in the throes of an existential crisis. Rejuvenated by his alliance with Mephistopheles, he is increasingly driven to world-shaking adventures, and, incidentally, he is also drawn to the "Eternal Feminine...