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Note 124) to be subordinate to the Earth Spirit and the latter to be responsible for Faust’s bondage to Mephistopheles. Further questions then arise about the ‘Gretchen tragedy’, into which the Urfaust version presently resolves itself. Like the Earth Spirit passage, it is a personal invention by the young Goethe, a characteristic and quite new contribution to the Faustus theme, though its connection with the Faustus story as such remains puzzlingly tenuous, and it is even possible that he originally conceived it quite independently of his Faust project. Goethe’s Gretchen story is not simply an episode in the career of a magician, a supernatural amorous encounter like the traditional chapbook episode made famous by Marlowe, in which Helen of Troy is procured as Faust’s succubus; and it goes far beyond the passing mention, in the 1674 chapbook, of a ‘very pretty but poor servant-girl’ whom the doctor loves but because of his satanic contract can

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