The great German writer Johann Wolfgang Goethe (174932) wrote the tragedy “Faust” throughout his creative life: started in 1774, it was completed by him a year and a half before his death. The tragedy in the verses "Faust" (part I - 1806, part II - 1831) - the greatest creation of Goethe Never and nowhere and not only in Goethe’s work, but throughout the German and world literature of the era has the great faith in life and the struggle for human happiness on earth found such a brilliant artistic expression as in Faust. All the tremendous power of his genius, all the wisdom and depth of his knowledge of Goethe's life with the greatest poetic power and dramatic perfection embodies in Faust. "Faust" Goethe - a philosophical poem that reveals giant horizons, poses and solves the basic questions of human existence. What is the meaning of life, what is its purpose? These are the most important questions... Goethe answers in his poem,” wrote the Soviet literary critic I. M. Metals. "Faust" - an inspired hymn to human daring, human wisdom . The love of humanity, the desire for knowledge and the desire to help people move the hero of the tragedy It is possible to call Goethe’s philosophical poem a tragedy with full right, not only because it is written in a dramatic form, but primarily because the path of man to the truth, the ideal, is always accompanied by tragic mistakes, hopeless losses, and the rejection of sweet, soothing illusions.