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recogniriolr of' this inexora-ble force incij-cates his
first s'uep in corning to terms r^,Iibh irhe principles of
existence a,nci ha.viir¡3 to d.ecide upon a. cor-r-rse oí a,c'bion.
tTidor,.r, lvienhistophilis, the rest,less course
That Tirne d.obh run t^iÍ'ùh ca-lrn and- silent foot,
Shortining my d.a1rs and ihread of vita-I life^.
Calls for the pa-yment of rny latest )rears"rT ¿L
'Îhe o,uiei;ude which marks these lines betrays
the tv,ro faces of Fa.ustus: thai of the rnan v"'ho has
finaliS' Iea-rned ]re rnu-si subrniì;, ancl that of the r¿an
i^¡iro ivould v¡islt it need not be so. Both faces are
confronted by eternal lav,¡s i,,¡hicir âre belrspd 'uhe þoi¡Ier
of l:'austus and i+ephistophilis to overcome. Yet the
resig;nation is one of f ense helplessi'ìess" It evokes
the irna-ge of Goei;he I s chained titan Prometheus whose
ternpes'buot-ts outburs'u against Zeu-s is a fitting
e)ipressj-on of the suporessed spj-rii i-n lrausfus:
lrHat nicht mich zum itanne geschmiedet
Die allmáchtige Zeit
Und cj"as e'ttige Schicksalr^^
líieine Fierrn und d"eine?rÎ ¿¿
I b is t.Íarl-otrre I s ilausbus ruho replies rhetoricalll';
Trl;'ihat art ihou, l'austus, but a rnen conde4$ed to die?
'l'he fatal time doth draív to final end. n 23
The conflicts presented by i*iarlol'¡e are etnanalions
of one centrai preoccutlation vrithou-t t¡¡hj-ch ihere could
not have been anlr Fausi Theme. It is the constant
ar^rareness of the realit¡r of ihe Sou-I. llhree circu-msLances