![]() ![]() I'm going to revisit this at some point and when I do I'll come back and adjust my star rating for the story but I didn't even make it out of the prologues in this audible version. In my mind, it really sounded like he was reading Faust for the very first time while narrating - and this just ISN'T the type of story you can read cold like that and have it make any sense at all. For instance, he read "ever" as "over" and "through" as "though". On top of that, he mis-read multiple words in the prologue. It seemed to me like he was reading the play like he would read any other poem, without regard for the actual story. While he wasn't quite monotone, his inflection wasn't matching up with the what the text was trying to say. Before he was thirty, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had proven himself a master of the novel, drama, and lyric poetry. But listening to the narration by Tim Habeger, I got the sense that he didn't understand it either. ![]() From experience with Shakespeare, I know that sometimes you just have to listen to "catch" the rhythm and meaning. When he enters, Faust finds that she has been driven insane by her imprisonment and sense of guilt. ![]() I was having trouble parsing the play to begin with which is one of the reasons I decided to listen to an audio version. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Home Literature Notes Faust, Parts 1 and 2 Prison Summary and Analysis Part 1: Prison Summary Assisted by Mephistopheles, Faust makes his way to Gretchens cell. ![]()
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