Goethe’s Faust, Part One
Valentine in Faust
Valentine challenges the men outside Margaret’s window and attacks Mephistopheles’ instrument. The confrontation immediately becomes a fight in which Faust is urged to draw his weapon. Dying, Valentine condemns his sister and describes her conduct as a wound to his own honour. The play gives the family’s judgement a public and destructive voice.
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Principal account
LiteraryValentine challenges the men outside Margaret’s window and attacks Mephistopheles’ instrument. The confrontation immediately becomes a fight in which Faust is urged to draw his weapon.
Further detail
LiteraryDying, Valentine condemns his sister and describes her conduct as a wound to his own honour. The play gives the family’s judgement a public and destructive voice.
Context & interpretation
This entry follows the character, setting or motif in Part One of Goethe’s drama as translated by Bayard Taylor. Its supernatural events and spoken claims belong to the play, rather than serving as historical biography or independently established accounts of spirits.
Original passages
Source 1
Faust
The cither's smashedOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Goethe’s Faust, Part One; active reader leaf 202
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- Edition
- IMJ-0088-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0088-E001-P0202
- Original scan leaf
- 203
- Recorded leaf number
- 203
- Current Reader position
- 199
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Source 2
Faust
It stabbed me to the very heartOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Goethe’s Faust, Part One; active reader leaf 206
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0088-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0088-E001-P0206
- Original scan leaf
- 207
- Recorded leaf number
- 207
- Current Reader position
- 203
- Reader verification
- Source-preserving update confirmed
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