That's the existential problem," Fat said, "based on the concept that We are what we do, rather than, We are what we think. It finds its first expression in Goethe's Faust, Part One, where Faust says, 'Im Anfang war das Wort'. He's quoting the opening of the Fourth Gospel; 'In the beginning was the Word.' Faust says, 'Nein. Im Anfang war die Tat.' In the beginning was the Deed. From this, all existentialism comes.
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O, thou art fairer than the evening air____ Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars;____ Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter____ When he appear'd to hapless Semele;____ More lovely than the monarch of the sky____ In wanton Arethusa's azur'd armsExcerpt From: Christopher Marlowe. __he Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Upon the publication of Goethe__ epic drama, the Faustian legend had reached an almost unapproachable zenith. Although many failed to appreciate, or indeed, to understand this magnum opus in its entirety, from this point onward his drama was the rule by which all other Faust adaptations were measured. Goethe had eclipsed the earlier legends and became the undisputed authority on the subject of Faust in the eyes of the new Romantic generation. To deviate from his path would be nothing short of blasphemy.
Grant me one hour on love__ most sacred shoresTo clasp the bosom that my soul adores,Lie heart to heart and merge my soul with yours.
Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?
(Marlowe's) Faustus stubbornly reverts to his atheistic beliefs and continues his elementary pagan re-education ~ the inferno to him is a 'place' invented by men.
... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!
... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.
Nonsense! I have merely come to terms with the fact that I am perfect, and I have decided life must go on, and I must learn to live with myself...