Can characters that be like you?

Through a story, it can be a movie or a book; there will always be characters with different personalities and desires. Commonly the reader will have different opinions about the behavior of each character and sometimes he can feels identify to one character.

In the play of Faust, as in all the stories, there are some characters that appear more often than others and are more important, and we can know them better. For example in Faust we can have a better opinion towards the attitude of: Faust, Mephistopheles, Margaret and Valentine. I have differents opinions towards Faust and Mephistopheles.

 I think that Faust let Mephistopheles influenced him to do what he wants, and that he is irresponsible because when he has what he wants from Margaret he abandons her. About Mephistopheles I think that he incite Faust to do evil things because is part of his job, I mean he has to fight for the souls so he has some in the hell.

My opinion about Margaret is that she is foolish because she permitted that Faust seduce her and when he goes away she the one who suffers the consequences. Probably it was the author’s purpose to show the reader the innocence that some people can have.

Valentine’s attitude towards her sister I did not like it very much, because instead of help and support her he was only replying for her actions. I think that Valentine was disappointed and that in that time it was dishonor to the whole family. But the way he acted make me hate him, I think that he have no right to judge his sister in that way and to make it public.

As you can see these are my opinions but probably you will have another point of view, about the personality of each character. That is very common to have because humans have that instinct, to judge so they can protect themselves by learning of the other’s experiences or by getting away of problematic people. And until this point of my reading I do not feel identify with any of the characters because I think that my personality and my attitudes toward some events are very different to the characters in Faust. For example if Mephestopheles appears to me I will probably run to the opposite direction. Have you feel identify with one character in the play of Faust?