Themes and Motifs

As more as you read the better you know the character. Faust sold his soul to the demon in order to get more knowledge and to accomplish all of his desires. The devil, Mephistopheles, will do whatever Faust wish in order to prove God that the human’s nature only follows the pleasure. Goethe’s story develops a series of ideas and others are repeated constantly. The ideas that are developed are call themes and the ones that repeat are motifs.

Themes:

·         The liberty that humans have to choose between the bad and good.

·         The morality and the immorality.

·         The human ambition

·         Life and Death

·         Religion

·         The human’s naïve

·         The innocence 

Motifs:

·         The fight between evil and good

·         The human ambition

Commentary about one theme:

      The naïve of Faust is the one that provoke most of the disgrace in the history. For example at the beginning of the story Faust believes that the demon can help him to accomplish all of his desires.

Commentary about one motive:

The human ambition repeats a lot through the text. It is on of the principal ideas of the story, because of the human ambition Faust destroys himself.