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100 1 Mathews, Freya,|eauthor.
245 10 Ardea: A Philosophical Novella /|cFreya Mathews.
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520 What is soul? Can it be forfeited? Can it be traded away?
If it can, what would ensue? What consequences would
follow from loss of soul - for the individual, for society,
for the earth? In the early nineteenth century, Goethe's
hero, Faust, became a defining archetype of modernity, a
harbinger of the existential possibilities and moral
complexities of the modern condition. But today the dire
consequences of the Faustian pact with the devil are
becoming alarmingly visible. In light of this, how would
Goethe's arguably flawed drama play out in a 21st-century
century setting? Would a contemporary Faust sign up to a
demonic deal? Indeed what, in the wake of two hundred
years of social and economic development, would be left
for the devil to offer him? A contemporary Faust would
already possess everything the original Faust in his
ascetic cloister lacked - affluence and mobility;
celebrity and worldly influence; access to information;
religious choice; sexual freedom and the availability of
women - though women, it must be noted, currently also
partake of that same freedom. The only thing a present-day
Faust would lack would be his soul. Would he miss it? Does
soul even exist? If it does, it would of course be the one
thing the devil could not bestow. So from what or whom
could Faust retrieve it? What, in a word, would a
contemporary Faust most deeply desire? In pursuit of these
questions, Ardea engages a familiar but possibly faulty
archetype, that of Faust, with an unfamiliar one, that of
the white heron, an archetype borrowed from a short story
of the same name by 19th-century American author, Sarah
Orne Jewett. In Jewett's tale, a soul-pact of an entirely
different kind from that entered into by Faust is
proposed. It is a pact with the wild, a pledge of fealty,
of non-forfeiture, that promises to redraw the violent
psycho-sexual and psycho-spiritual patterns that have
underpinned modernity. How would a present-day heir to the
Faustian tradition, ingrained with the habit of
entitlement but also burdened with the consequences of the
old pact, respond to the new proposition?
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