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i,vith ivara irony.
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ttUnser lieiland ist d.o ge1¡rest?1r
t¡l.,To isi er hin?rr
1ÌEr isi u-fgeopfer.t und ingenoi'nnen"rt
ttlch hab ihn nit gesehn"lr
ttBis guef es i,luetes, I{incl, dÍe mehristeir.
häni ihn nit sesehen.lr )t+
The .Ðower of love as a redempti-ve princiole
is consis'bently ad.hered to thror"rghout the novel" This
tinks v,¡ith the li'cerarl. expression of ruiarlowe whose
Faust l¿as condemned by a slrrfeit of dead.ly sin in ihe
forni of self-love: it concurs v¡itlr Goetheis Ìi'au-st i,,¡ho
rvas saved. by seli'-Iess love; ii is ihe polar opposite
of Valárvrs ]j'a.usù in inihose heart ii found ito pl-ace'
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lrassionaie love of his pro'bagonist becomes active before
society is able to wean him frorn his innate feel-in.gs'
'lheo;ohras't I s power f or action both in terms of himself
and the ¡.^¡orld stands in d,irect pro,oortion to his
ability to give of himself ' It is the haunting figure
of the tittle rope-dancer --so remi-nisceni of Goethers
i'Iignon in i,'l.ilheln__,i.'le,Ls-LeI -- v¡ho is forced- to enteriain
rJrrri np. the nil .r.^jrn-nra on.l u-uI ¿r¡É) v¡rv y¿J-ËJ- JI1Iqã)u qrru v¡ho first arouses Paracelsus"
t
äer life iÉ subjection io hard-shio and crueltv opens
ner,r¡ vista.s f or him of r,¡hich he can only just be a!'Iare.