Mephistopheles

bass voice, while the Basso Profundo is the lowest and deepest of the basses. Basso Buffo, or the “humorous” bass, and the hoher (high) bass round out the family. Famous bass roles include Duke Bluebeard from Bluebeard’s Castle(Bartok), Gounod’s Mephistopheles from Faust, and the title role of Don Giovanni by Mozart. As you have probably guessed, Wagner wrote significant Basso Profundo roles into his Ring Cycle. The Structural Parts of an

The Dark Knight The Dark Knight is an action hero film from 2008 directed and co-written by Christopher Nolan. It is Christopher Nolan’s second film based on the comic hero Batman, and it’s the second movie to the 2005 Batman Begins. As Roger Ebert explains, “It creates characters we come to care about. That’s because of the performances, because of the direction, because of the writing, and because of the superlative technical quality of the entire production.” The stars include Christian Bale

quite simply, good at his job - without the burden of being philosophically committed to Nazism. In Speer’s memoirs , Inside the Third Reich, “For the commission to do a great building, I would have sold my soul like Faust. Now I had found my Mephistopheles”. In 1942, now part of Hitler’s inner circle, he became Minister of Armaments and during this time completely rationalised Germany’s wartime

Goethe’s Faust confirms the existence of a perfect God. God was always and will always be perfectly good. Even so, I believe it is a good made perfect through pain and suffering that is better than one inherently good. Due to humanity’s inherent imperfections, someone who was always perfect could not understand humanity as well as humanity could potentially understand itself. To reach a point of virtuousness, humans have to go through a lot of pain because abuse is intrinsic to our existence. There

word “please” whilst using a cajoling tone forcing Mrs.Johnstone to capitulate to her wishes reinforces the fact that Mrs. Lyons could ‘buy’ anything she wanted in a sense shows her power, but the mere fact she can buy “a baby” presents her as Mephistopheles like character. Mrs.Johnstone is emblematic of Faust; therefore we can allude to the fact that their “pack” is a Faustian pack. The use of biblical references such as “the bible” denotes to the day of reckoning and how “a debt is a debt”. In

David Hume was one of the most influential philosophers of the eighteenth century. He was a champion of empiricism in determining the origins of human knowledge, believing that outside of experience, there was no way to obtain knowledge. In Treatise of Human Nature, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Hume presented a series of controversial ideas in accordance with empiricism that challenged the concept of rationalism. Among these ideas were a concept

Paper 2 Death is a topic that many people often like to avoid thinking about as well as avoid discussing. I believe that this is due to the fact that death is the only thing that we can be certain of in this life and it is in fact inevitable. Everyone lives up to the point of death and death is a natural part of life that many people do not want to come to terms with. Many people disregard the thought of death, whether it be hiding behind their religious views, cultural beliefs, or just overall

Born on this day in 1832, Louisa May Alcott led a fascinating life. Besides enchanting millions of readers with her novel Little Women, she worked as a Civil War nurse, fought against slavery, and registered women to vote. For Louisa, writing was an early passion. She had a very deep and rich imagination and her novels often became the basis of melodramas that she and her sisters would act out for their friends. Louisa preferred to play the "lurid" parts in these plays --"the villains, ghosts,

Robert Bolaño once stated, “People see what they want to see, and what they want to see never has anything to do with the truth.” While many seem to believe that our modern society is obsessed with crafting artificial “realities”, it should be known that it is something that people have always done. People have learned to morph their truths to fit into their personal liking. For man 's relationship with himself is a relationship that wants to satisfy itself. The protagonists in Heart of Darkness

American man put down by society, very poor, considered unattractive as his family was considered, unwanted by his father, and disrespected by everyone he had known. When remembering the scarring events of his life and experiencing new ones, he had looked to his daughter Pecola in one scene and noticed the her resemblance to his wife, reminding him of how they had met. “How dare she love him? Hadn’t she had any sense at all? What was he supposed to about it?”Return it? How?”(Morrison 87). He had