Goethe's Faust rewrites Job from a fear-inspiring story about God's unquestionable mystery into an optimistic Enlightenment story about curiosity.
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Goethe's Faust rewrites Job from a fear-inspiring story about God's unquestionable mystery into an optimistic Enlightenment story about curiosity.
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"Okay. And so Faust the book of Faust it's based on another book called the book of Job which we find in the Bible...."
"You take away his children. And he will curse you. And God says fine. I make you this bet. You can do anything you..."
"Do not ever believe you can question me. Okay. And then what God does is he restores Job's health and wealth. Okay. So it's..."
"...Hamlet by Shakespeare is a book that celebrates individuality, individual reflection. Goethe's Thos is a, a book in which a scholar by the name..."
"...were extremely prominent members of European society. These were intellectuals like Goethe, these were nobility, these were bankers."
"...Because one of the most famous members of the Illuminati is Goethe. Okay? And Goethe wrote a very famous play called Faust. And let's..."
"...ideas underpinning the Enlightenment. All right. Now let's move on to Goethe. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He is considered the greatest German writer of..."
"...beast. Okay. What's important for us to remember is that here Goethe is invoking Dante. Right? Remember Dante in the Divine Comedy says that..."
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