The scene in town continues with bits of conversation from the citizens. A student replies to his friend that he would rather go find a woman at a bar or brothel than have to make pleasantries with some of the town's women. Then we hear a citizen talking about the new mayor and how the town is getting worse under his rule, just like the citizen had predicted. Next a beggar asks the passing men and women for "help as well as pity" (59). Another citizen speaks of how on Sundays he likes to hear about wars in other lands, because it makes him truly appreciate the peace in his homeland and a fellow citizen agrees with him saying "let all the world go topsy-turvy mad,/but here we keep secure the same old way" (60). Next an old woman encounters a pair of town's girls who agree to stay clear of such people and discuss how the woman conjured up images of their future lovers in a crystal ball. I believe the woman is a witch of some kind. Finally before Faust enters the scene, a group of soldiers talk about the life of a soldier: citadels, chasing women, bravery, enjoying the joy of battle or the grave, and the desire to win and master everything whether it be woman or fort. Faust and Wagner enter the scene. Faust describes how spring is coming using some very pretty metaphors, personification, and overly flowery language. He comments how the sun "makes the dressed-up mortals serve instead" of flowers because spring hasn't entirely sprung yet (61). Then, finally, he remarks on the mobs of people that have crowded into the city for Easter, describing them as "resurrected/ from hovels and oppressive rooms/ ... from the dark church's cloistered hush"(61). Faust is describing the joy of Easter, but Wagner, though he is ecstatic to be walking with Faust, rejects his view saying that walking through the Easter mobs is below the brilliance of the Doctor. Wagner also declares that the mobs "roar like things of Satan's hellish clanging", while a group of peasants under a lime-tree begin a song and dance about a man that "coaxes" a maiden "on the sly"(62). Finally Faust and Wagner come to an old peasant who gives Faust thanks and praise for his knowledge and humbleness to join with the peasants on Easter. Then the man gives Faust a drink which Faust takes a gives a wish of long life to all those gathered.
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The scene in town continues with bits of conversation from the citizens. A student replies to his friend that he would rather go find a woman at a bar or brothel than have to make pleasantries with some of the town's women. Then we hear a citizen talking about the new mayor and how the town is getting worse under his rule, just like the citizen had predicted. Next a beggar asks the passing men and women for "help as well as pity" (59). Another citizen speaks of how on Sundays he likes to hear about wars in other lands, because it makes him truly appreciate the peace in his homeland and a fellow citizen agrees with him saying "let all the world go topsy-turvy mad,/but here we keep secure the same old way" (60). Next an old woman encounters a pair of town's girls who agree to stay clear of such people and discuss how the woman conjured up images of their future lovers in a crystal ball. I believe the woman is a witch of some kind. Finally before Faust enters the scene, a group of soldiers talk about the life of a soldier: citadels, chasing women, bravery, enjoying the joy of battle or the grave, and the desire to win and master everything whether it be woman or fort.
Faust and Wagner enter the scene. Faust describes how spring is coming using some very pretty metaphors, personification, and overly flowery language. He comments how the sun "makes the dressed-up mortals serve instead" of flowers because spring hasn't entirely sprung yet (61). Then, finally, he remarks on the mobs of people that have crowded into the city for Easter, describing them as "resurrected/ from hovels and oppressive rooms/ ... from the dark church's cloistered hush"(61). Faust is describing the joy of Easter, but Wagner, though he is ecstatic to be walking with Faust, rejects his view saying that walking through the Easter mobs is below the brilliance of the Doctor. Wagner also declares that the mobs "roar like things of Satan's hellish clanging", while a group of peasants under a lime-tree begin a song and dance about a man that "coaxes" a maiden "on the sly"(62). Finally Faust and Wagner come to an old peasant who gives Faust thanks and praise for his knowledge and humbleness to join with the peasants on Easter. Then the man gives Faust a drink which Faust takes a gives a wish of long life to all those gathered.
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