Faust
How does Johann Wolfgang von Goethe use imagery in Faust?
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Goethe uses the imagery of flight and falling in relation to Faust's aspirations and pride.
Till swollen with cunning of a self-conceit,
His waxen wings did mount above his reach,
And melting heavens conspired his overthrow.
Faust