Faust (Parts 1 and 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Part 1, Scenes 14-20

[Music] in part one scene 14 of faust forest and cavern alone in a cave faust thanks the spirit of the earth for giving him a new appreciation of the wonders of nature he also thanks him for mephistopheles who fans the flames of faust's passion for gretchen mephistopheles arrives and tells faust off for

mooning about and leaving gretchen to suffer from his absence faust doesn't want to take her innocence but mephistopheles convinces him they're both suffering in part 1 scene 15 gretchen's room gretchen sits at her spinning wheel pining for faust in part 1 scene 16 martha's garden gretchen asks faust if he believes in god

he replies he believes in love in their feeling for each other she hates mephistopheles when he's nearby she can't pray and she almost can't even love faust faust wants to pass a quiet time alone together and so does gretchen but she's worried that her mother might catch them faust gives her a sleeping potion

mephistopheles who's been hiding has overheard their conversation and makes light of it in part 1 scene 17 at the well when she goes to draw water at the village well gretchen runs into a gossipy neighbor girl who tells her that an unmarried village girl named barbara has gotten pregnant gretchen feels sorry for barbara as she

heads home she remembers how she herself used to be scornful of any girl who got herself in trouble but now she is the singer in part 1 scene 18 the city wall gretchen leaves flowers and prays to a statue of mary to save her from shame and death in part one scene 19 night valentine gretchen's

brother stands on the street outside her house angry and ashamed that she's become pregnant he sees two men faust and mephistopheles looking in a vestry window and plotting a robbery faust is hoping to find something special to give his darling mephistopheles sings a diddy warning girls about how men seduce them valentine arrives and smashes