Also...

"Who ever strives with all his power,

We are allowed to save." p.493, lines 11936-7

How and for what does Faust strive with all his power?  Also, what are we to make of Faust's relationship with Gretchen, and what does their relationship have to do with his being saved at  the end of the text?  In other words, what's love got to do with it?

"What is destructible

Is but a parable;

What fails ineluctably,

The undeclarable,

Here it was seen,

Here it was action;

The Eternal-Feminine

Lures to perfection." p.503, closing lines

Is the word "lures" here appropriately translated?  And what do we think of Faust ascending to the Virgin Mary?  I'm really blown away by the lack of "God" at the end of the play and the presence of the feminine in redemption.

Finally, there is a huge difference between Part I and Part II.  What are they both centrally about, and how do they relate/not relate to one another?