Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who lived to the age of eighty-two and produced more than 130 volumes of poetry, plays, letters, and science, is acknowledged to be one of the giants of world literature. His writing ranged from fairy tales, to psychological novels, to political and historical novels, and to something completely unique and different such as Faust. Goethe was born shortly after the death of the Pope, on August 28, 1749 in Frankfurt am Main to a …

…as an evil spirit, but at times as an wise scholar. Faust himself is tricked by Mephistopheles, but at last goes to Heaven. In him the reader sees Goethe himself, as he studied the occult, and then began his actual life. Goethe himself is very much like Faust, writing the tremendous play at the end of his life. As C.P. Magill states, "he is a lucky man, the kind who gets away with murder."