In today's print edition of the New York Times, a letter to the editor from Jimmy Stewart's daughter

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10. A more apt comparison would be to Goethe's Faust who sold his soul

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..to the devil (mephistopheles) for riches, power [eerily describes trump, his ghoulish sycophants, family, gop] yet in the end Faust finds redemption--with this evil cabal no ser posible obtener perdon [may not be possible to obtain forgiveness.]

Faust makes a pact (an agreement) with Mephistopheles who promises him all his soul can wish for: fine living, gold, women and honour. Faust signs the pact with his blood. Faust uses magic in the hope that it will tell him everything about life. However, in the end Mephistopheles wins his bet.
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Ultimately, Faust goes to Heaven, for he loses only half of the bet. Angels, who arrive as messengers of divine mercy, declare at the end of Act V: "He who strives on and lives to strive/ Can earn redemption still" (V