{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 156/1914-10-07/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"You know that I only mention personal matters when there is an objective reason to do so. Now, when I turn my thoughts to the evolution of humanity, I must sometimes mention a weak attempt that I made as a very young man. This writing was the second thing of mine to be printed. At that time I tried, childishly of course, for I was only 23 or 24 years old, to realize that progress from what Shakespearean figures are to what Goethe's Faust is. Through Shakespeare something was created that had to be created in his age, in which human beings could only be portrayed as archetypes, in such a way that the way they are portrayed directly reveals an unfolding of their inner soul forces. The progress in Goethe's “Faust” lies in the fact that Goethe did not present the individual figures as individual types - like Hamlet, Lear, Macbeth and so on in Shakespeare - but presented Faust as the human being of our age. Faust can only be placed in a poem once; what Shakespeare had to give could be placed before people in many human types. One must consider the diversity of human spiritual life in evolution in such a way that in each age precisely what must happen as the characteristic of this age is expressed.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"An Age of Expectation","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-10-07","location":null,"word_count":222,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/156/1914-10-07/p019","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA156/English/Singles/19141007p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/156/1914-10-07/p019"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/156/1914-10-07/p019","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Ich muß jetzt manchesmal, wenn ich die Gedanken auf die Evolution der Menschheit lenke, eines schwachen Versuches gedenken, den ich als ganz junger Mensch machte. Es war diese Schrift das zweite, was von mir überhaupt gedruckt worden ist. Ich versuchte dazumal - kindlich selbstverständlich, denn ich war ja erst 23 oder 24 Jahre alt - jenen Fortschritt mir klarzumachen von dem, was Shakespearesche Gestalten sind, zu dem, was der Goethesche Faust ist. Durch Shakespeare ist etwas geschaffen worden, was gerade in seinem Zeitalter geschaffen werden mußte, in dem Menschen nur dargestellt werden konnten als Menschentypen, in einer solchen Art und Weise, daß die Art, wie sie dargestellt sind, unmittelbar eine Entfaltung ihrer inneren Seelenkräfte zeigt. Der Fortschritt im Goetheschen «Faust» liegt darin, daß Goethe nicht die einzelnen Gestalten als einzelne Typen hingestellt hat - wie Hamlet, Lear, Macbeth und so weiter bei Shakespeare -, sondern den Faust als den Menschen unseres Zeitalters. Faust kann man nur einmal in eine Dichtung hineinstellen; das, was Shakespeare zu geben hatte, konnte in vielen Menschentypen vor die Menschen hingestellt werden. Man muß so die Vielfältigkeit des menschlichen Geisteslebens in der Evolution ins Auge fassen, daß in jedem Zeitalter gerade das geschehen muß, was als das Charakteristische dieses Zeitalters sich ausspricht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":219,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/156/1914-10-07/p019"}],"english":["GA 156/1914-10-07/p019"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":219,"en_words":222,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8155,"original_word_count":7855,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA156/English/Singles/19141007p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 156/1914-10-07/p019"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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