Another Faust Compare And Contrast Essay

At an early age, a typical child is taught right from wrong. This practice is gone about by showing children the negative withdraws of partaking in wrongs and rewards of doing right. Getting caught in a lie will create distrust when you tell the truth; hiding away from the world all the time leads you to miss out on living life. Dina and Daniel Nayeri’s Another Faust features characters that practice their egocentric acts in order to advance in their selected fields of interest. Cheating, hiding, lying, stealing, or tricking were gifts given to each child to further their ambition, but in practice of their respected gifts each child’s life was devastated.
“If you’re poor, you can’t afford to sit around dreaming up stories of your life. You follow the money.” Five year-old Christian said this within the first 4 pages of Another Faust starting off the story of his background with a sense of desperation, later this creates a plagiostomi type of person who fends only for themselves. The original Faust from Goethe’s play Faust the

And although this writer does believes that ambition is acceptable, anything in assess is annihilative. Moderation is a determining factor between negative and positive. If one were to over indulge in a single act then that act then one was taken the first step in the path of destruction. Not only the destruction of themselves but the decimation of those around them. And in correlation to their ambition one has to potential to overcome almost any deterrent. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” (Psychological Science 2010). It is said that every human is born with evil. Although, according to the Bible man was created good, somewhere along the line we as a species have lost such perfection. “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them” (New Living Translation