Faust’s Stereotypical Traditional Woman

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…salvation from her sense of guilt at the church. She also prayed when to God when she saw Mephistopheles come to her prison cell. Perhaps Goethe was thinking of the stereotype of the traditional woman when he came up with the role of Margaret/Gretchen. Maybe at the time that Faust was written, the actions of Margaret were less stereotypical, and more typical. Either way, Margaret was physically, mentally, and spiritually the old-fashioned, traditional woman.