Faust (Parts 1 and 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Part 1, Scenes 7-13

[Music] in part one scene seven of faust street faust apparently out for a walk sees gretchen passing and offers his arm she's just left church and rebuffs him he tells mephistopheles he must have her but mephistopheles warns she's the soul of innocence but promises to take faust to her room that evening while the girl is visiting a neighbor in

part one scene eight evening gretchen's in her room doing her hair and speculating on the man who approached her earlier after she leaves mephistopheles brings faust in faust explores the room alone thinking of gretchen and imagining her childhood his lust has turned to love mephistopheles returns to warn that the girl is returning

and leaves a jewel box with choice things in it for gretchen to find gretchen returns and sings a song about a man whose dying mistress gives him a cup he treasures above all else but which he one day throws into the sea then she finds the jewel box full of expensive jewelry gretchen thinks how little value beauty

has what men really want in a woman is money in part 1 scene 9 out walking mephistopheles is angry when gretchen's mother saw the jewelry she made her daughter give it all to the church and the priest pocketed everything faust orders mephistopheles to give her more and better jewelry in part one scene 10

the neighbor's house gretchen goes to visit her neighbor martha whose husband has disappeared gretchen has found another box in her closet containing more jewelry there's a knock at the door it's mephistopheles who informs the neighbor that her husband died in padua and is buried there martha needs proof of her husband's death which requires two witnesses