TY  - RPRT
A1  - Deinert, Herbert
T1  - Faust the colonizer
N2  - "Musst du nicht längst kolonisieren?" ("Hasn't colonizing been your business?") is Mephisto's loaded comment on Faust's dilemma, namely his inability to persuade Philemon and Baucis to vacate their little estate voluntarily in exchange for pleasant retirement quarters in his newly gained territory, wrested from the sea (Faust, Part II, V, line 11274). Baucis in particular sees no reason why they should be displaced and resents Faust's expansiveness. "Wie er sich als Nachbar brüstet, soll man untertänig sein" ("He struts into the neighborhood expecting us to act like serfs," lines 11133/4). "Kolonisieren" as Mephisto uses the word clearly favors strong-arm tactics over restraint. Faust finally gives the go-ahead: "So geht und schafft sie mir zur Seite" ("Go and get them out of there," line 11275) for an attempt at forced resettlement that leaves three more corpses on his path to salvation and is followed by a seamless flow of events culminating in his own death.
KW  - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
KW  - Kolonisierung
Y1  - 1995
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13840
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1147480
UR  - http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/hd11/Faust-colonizer.html
N1  - Herbert Deinert (Professor of German Studies, Emeritus) Department of German Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853. Zusätzliches Material findet sich unter: http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/hd11/
N1  - Postprint, zuerst erschienen in: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 10.1995, Nr. 5, S. 1047-1052
ER  -