Goethe's Faust Lesson Plan

How is Faust shown to be different from the men in Auerbach’s wine cellar? How is he shown to be different from Mephistopheles?

In this section, Faust is still quite staid, conscientious and bourgeois. He does not take pleasure in drinking with the other men (revealing once again the enormous gap between him and the common, ordinary lives of most humans).

But he doesn't take pleasure, either, in the magic mischief which Mephistopheles gleefully visits upon them. Not only does Mephistopheles decide to do this entirely of his own accord, but it is also Mephistopheles's decision to go to Auerbach's wine cellar in the first place. In contrast, Faust feels that they are...