HONR 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Eternal Feminine, Varg Vikernes
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Hint for determining speaker: all good lines are said by. Mephistopheles, when in doubt it"s probably him on the final exam . He began the major movement in modernity and the romantic view of nature. Romanticism: emotions and feelings over reason, protagonist is a heroic outsider at war with society, critical of enlightenment project. Earth spirit: despair and represents the earth"s flux and change. Faust is the prodian character in the poem. Movement away from enlightenment (reason) towards romanticism (emotion) Faust wants sympathetic, empathetic, spiritual connection between people and nature; nature can"t be conquered. Mysterious even in broad daylight, nature lets no one part her veil, and what she keeps hidden, out of sight, all your levers and wrenches can"t make her revealwhat"s worthwhile is what you spontaneously create. (p 26) Because the course of nature is so unpredictable and out of sight, one can not construct a science to direct it.
