"IS SAVED" - god
I'm rehashing this quote because I think it might be one of the most important ones in the text. In response to several of the previous posts, I think this quote reflects a discontinuous and sudden intervention into the darkness of human passion by divine salvation.
It also reflects, like the quote about striving and salvation, God's pity for human passions. And in the end, even Mephistopheles laments the impotence of evil these days. The passions, for the sake of the play, are exciting in their darkness, but ultimately, all it takes is a few words from heaven (or some rose petals) and salvation triumphs.
Does this mean it's easy to get to heaven for Goethe? Or, that the difficulty lies in striving and thereby wearing out the passions?
Also, did anyone else have a really hard time figuring out that Margaret and Gretchen are the same person?
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