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Faust and rescuing
On the sixth ( final ) level, after defeating Faust and rescuing Kate, players will have to go through pairs of bosses: Bravado and Link, Ohsugi and the Rudes, and Kurt and Faust.

Faust and Helen
In Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus ( 1604 ), Faust conjures the shade of Helen.
) Helen is also conjured by Faust in Goethe's Faust.
* Helen appears in various versions of the Faust myth, such as Marlowe's play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus-of which Faustus ' summoning Helen and courting her is one of the most well-known scenes, and which contributed the line " Was this the face that launched a thousand ships ...?
* German poet and polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe re-envisioned the meeting of Faust and Helen.
In Faust: The Second Part of the Tragedy, the union of Helen and Faust becomes a complex allegory of the meeting of the classical-ideal and modern worlds.
* In the novel " Faust Among Equals " by Tom Holt, the relationship between Faust and Helen of Troy is a central theme.
Faust and his Devil pass through and manipulate the world of politics and the world of the classical gods, and meet with Helen of Troy ( the personification of beauty ).
After 16 years, he begins to regret his pact and wants to withdraw, but the devil persuades him to renew it, conjuring up Helen of Troy, with whom Faust sires a son called Justus.
In Faust II, the legend of Johann Faust ( at least in a version of the 18th century, which came to Goethe's attention ) already contained Faust's marriage with Helen and an encounter with an Emperor.
Faust falls in love with Helen.
In a fit of jealously toward Paris, who is now abducting Helen, Faust destroys the illusion and the act ends in darkness and tumult.
Faust, still searching for Helen, is led by the sybil Manto into the Underworld.
Phorkyas transports Helen and the chorus to Faust's fortress, where Helen and Faust declare their love for each other.
Phorkyas, now Faust and Helen's attendant, explains to the newly-woken chorus that during the past interval Faust and Helen have had a spirited son named Euphorion, who charms all with his beauty and gift for music.
' Faust ' is distracted from repentance Helen of Troy, whom he seduces before realising she is a wooden demon in disguise.
It immediately precedes the entrance of Mephistopheles, Faust, and Homunculus to the rites that result in Faust's Dream Life Sequence as a knight living in a castle with Helen of Troy ( until the death of their child shatters the fantasy and Faust returns to the physical world for the conclusion of the play ).

Faust and from
As they moved away from their psychedelic roots and placed increasing emphasis on electronic experimentation German bands like Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Can and Faust developed a distinctive brand of electronic rock, known as kosmische musik, or in the British press as " Kraut rock ".
During the two operatic scenes in the film, MacDonald sang excerpts from Charles Gounod's Faust and Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata.
In a more complex situation, A la maniere de ... Emmanuel Chabrier / Paraphrase sur un air de Gounod (" Faust IIème acte "), Ravel takes on a theme from Gounod's Faust and arranges it in the style of Chabrier.
Goethe also used Puck in the first half of Faust, in a scene entitled " A Walpurgis Night Dream ", where he played off of the spirit Ariel from The Tempest.
A shift in pitch since the mid 19th century means that the few written top Cs ( such as in " Salut demeure " from Gounod's Faust ) would have in fact demanded a note at least a semitone lower than today's standard pitch.
* Drew Gilpin Faust, historian of the American Civil War and first female president of Harvard University, graduated from Bryn Mawr College
Boito's revised and drastically cut version also changed Faust from a baritone to a tenor, and it is still frequently performed and recorded today.
The origin of Faust's name and persona remains unclear ; though it is widely assumed to be based on the figure of Dr. Johann Georg Faust ( c. 1480 – 1540 ), a magician and alchemist probably from Knittlingen, Württemberg, who obtained a degree in divinity from Heidelberg University in 1509.
At the end of that day, having been restored to youth and helped by Mephisto to steal a beautiful woman from her wedding feast, Faust is sufficiently tempted that he agrees to extend the pact for eternity.
It has inspired major musical works in other forms, such as the " dramatic legend " The Damnation of Faust by Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust, the second part of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, Franz Liszt's Faust Symphony and Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony.
The anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Kuroshitsuji ( Black Butler ) were also shown to have several parallels with the concepts from Faust.
* The Faust Tradition from Marlowe to Mann, California State University, Chico
Faust was changed from a baritone to a tenor.
* Johann Wolfgang Goethe took the figures from Shakespeare's work to Faust I. Oberon is married to Titania, and the couple are celebrating their golden wedding anniversary in Faust I.
Believing the post to be " the first professorship of its kind in the country ," Harvard President Drew G. Faust called it “ an important milestone .” Funded by a $ 1. 5 million gift from the members and supporters of the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus, the F. O. Matthiessen Visiting Professorship of Gender and Sexuality is named for a mid-20th century gay Harvard American studies scholar and literary critic who chaired the undergraduate program in history and literature.
By 1825, he was producing lithographs illustrating Shakespeare, and soon thereafter lithographs and paintings from Goethe's Faust.
The antihero has evolved over time, changing as society's conceptions of the hero changed, from the Elizabethan times of Faust and William Shakespeare's Falstaff, to the darker-themed Victorian literature of the 19th century, such as John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, written in the mid-18th century, or as a timid, passive, indecisive man that contrasts sharply with other Greek heroes to Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug.
Part I is based on the Latin text of a 9th-century Christian hymn for Pentecost, Veni creator spiritus (" Come, Creator Spirit "), and Part II is a setting of the words from the closing scene of Goethe's Faust.
The Liberal lived through four quarterly numbers, containing contributions no less memorable than Byron's " Vision of Judgment " and Shelley's translations from Faust ; but in 1823 Byron sailed for Greece, leaving Hunt at Genoa to shift for himself.

Faust and is
The third Act of Faust 2, is a formal celebration of the union between the Germanic and the classic, between the spirit of Euripides and that of romantic drama.
Modern art is also the main topic of the Kunsthalle Faust, the Nord / LB Art Gellery and of the Foro Artistico / Eisfabrik.
He is said to have printed several books including Speculum Humanae Salvationis with several assistants including the letter cutter Johann Fust, and it was this letter cutter Fust ( often spelled Faust ) who, when Laurens was nearing death, broke his promise of secrecy and stole his presses and type and took them to Mainz where he started his own printing company.
Wilde is reputed to have stated that " in every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.
" As in Faust, a temptation is placed before the lead character Dorian, the potential for ageless beauty ; Dorian indulges in this temptation.
Unlike Faust, there is no point at which Dorian makes a deal with the devil.
The name of the monorail was chosen by chief designer Chuck Faust, and is an acronym short for " who gives a shit anyway.
The celesta is used in many 20th century opera scores, including Puccini's Tosca ( 1900 ), Ravel's L ' heure espagnole ( 1911 ), Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos ( 1912 ), and Die Frau ohne Schatten ( 1918 ), while " an excellent example of its beauty when well employed ", is the Silver Rose scene in his Der Rosenkavalier ( 1911 ), Busoni's Arlecchino ( 1917 ) and Doktor Faust ( 1925 ), Orff's Der Mond ( 1939 ), Menotti's Amelia Goes to the Ball ( 1937 ), Britten's The Turn of the Screw ( 1954 ) and A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1960 ), Susa's Transformations ( 1973 ), and Philip Glass ' Akhnaten ( 1984 ).
In Part II of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Mephistopheles tries to catch a Lamia, only to find out that she is an illusion:
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend ; a highly successful scholar, but also one dissatisfied with his life, who therefore makes a deal with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures.
The Faust of early books — as well as the ballads, dramas, movies and puppet-plays which grew out of them — is irrevocably damned because he prefers human to divine knowledge ; " he laid the Holy Scriptures behind the door and under the bench, refused to be called doctor of Theology, but preferred to be styled doctor of Medicine ".
Faust is bored and disappointed.
In Goethe's rendition, Faust is saved by God's grace via his constant striving — in combination with Gretchen's pleadings with God in the form of the Eternal Feminine.
However, in the early tales, Faust is irrevocably corrupted and believes his sins cannot be forgiven ; when the term ends, the Devil carries him off to Hell.
The first known printed source for the legend of Faust is a small chapbook bearing the title Historia von D. Johann Fausten, published in 1587.

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