Goethe’s Faust – Walpurgis Night while Gretchen suffers.“Walpurgis Night represents the powers of ennui and indifference in full flight, a restless activity of petty sins, a superficiality and cynicism concerning human affairs that is amusing but corrosive. The world is shown as Vanity Fair: and Faust as a selfish observer while Gretchen is elsewhere suffering.”Pasted from <http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/German/TheRestlessSpiritPartII.htm>
The legend of Faust from the Renaissance times. The end of civilization.