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protagonist of a classic German legend

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Faust

protagonist of a classic German legend

Not who you're looking for? Others named Faust: 1926 film by F. W. Murnau · show produced by the East West Theatre Company and directed · hamlet in Alberta, Canada · grand opera in five acts by Charles Gounod

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Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust. The erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a deal with the Devil at a crossroads, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. The Faust legend has been the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical works that have reinterpreted it through the ages. "Faust" and the adjective "Faustian" imply sacrificing spiritual values for power, knowledge, or material gain.

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Died: 1540

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Faust: 1926 film by F. W. Murnau · show produced by the East West Theatre Company and directed · hamlet in Alberta, Canada · grand opera in five acts by Charles Gounod

Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust. The erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a deal with the Devil at a crossroads, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. The Faust legend has been the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical works that have reinterpreted it through the ages. "Faust" and the adjective "Faustian" imply sacrificing spiritual values for power, knowledge, or material gain.

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Died: 1540