HUMA 1720 Study Guide - Final Guide: John Stuart Mill, Romantic Hero, Babylonian Captivity
13 Nov 2013
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A scholar unsatisfied and seeking more from his study. Makes a deal with the devil to achieve happiness and satisfaction. He finds love in a woman named gretchen, however she dies much to his despair: emotional involvement and happiness. The main theme is the strive for happiness and achievement. Faust goes through this long painful journey, however his will to seek achievment was a positive notion. All humans are in a constant strive to better themselves and do so perhaps in an imperfect manner. Every human has an unconscious desire to improve. Quest for beauty: magic, neoclassism, romanticism, god complex, self actualization. Spoken with true emotion and expressed as a form of art. Often reflects the lives and emotional hardships of the authors. Imagination: john keats, lived a tragic life and expressed himself through his work. Speaks about everlasting love, frozen in time.
