Goethe’s Faust makes not a pact with the Devil, but a wager.“Only in Faust: Part One (1808) does Goethe commit himself to his second great divergence from the traditional fable: his Faust now makes not a contract with the Devil but a wager. Faust wagers that, however much of human life the Devil shows him, he will find none of it satisfying—and if he is wrong (i.e., if he is satisfied), he is willing to give up living altogether.”Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. (2010). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved March 11, 2010, from Encyclopædia Britannica OnlinePasted from <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/237027/Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe/260249/Faust>
The legend of Faust from the Renaissance times. The end of civilization.