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Essay Archive - 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 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 ....
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