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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Goethe
Goethe
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The First Part Of The Tragedy. Part 3
Witch's Kitchen (lines 2337-2604):
A large kettle boils over a low fire in the middle of the room. Steam
rises from it. A female monkey sits near the kettle, tending it. A male monkey
sits next to the female with their young. He is warming himself. The walls and
ceiling of the room are decorated with the strange instruments of witchcraft.
Faust and Mephistopheles enter the room.
Faust speaks. How I hate this sorcery, he says. How can I be made whole
in this mess? How can these animals reduce my age by thirty years? Isn't ...
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