In Faust's opening monologue in 'Night', whose source material is mainly Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, Faust rejects book learning in favour of magic. However, the positive lights towards which he then turns, first the moon shining outside his window, then the Macrocosm and Earth Spirit, evoke from him the language of eighteenth-century sensibility. Faust is interested primarily in his emotions, and his narrow gothic room, emblem of his dry intellectual world, offers no space for them to overflow. Faust’s
A Comparison of the Chemical Structures and Production Methods of Silk and Artificial Silk Abstract Despite their seemingly similar exteriors, the chemical structures and production methods of natural silk and the artificial silks rayon and nylon are quite different. Silk yarn, extracted from the cocoon of the Bombyx mori moth, is made up of fibroin molecules with beta-pleated sheet secondary structures. The fibroin molecules consist of crystalline fibers constructed of regularly paralleled