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Characters

The personalities of our four protagonists have splintered, their characters corroded. They perpetually try to self-optimise in pursuit of a perfect public image. They are children of their time, role models to no one but themselves.
And like Faust and Leverkühn before them, they too enter into a pact with the devil...

Protagonist #1 (f)

​Character
The Technocrat
​Driving Force
Conscientiousness
​Worldview
Kantian duty ethics

Protagonist #1 (m)

Character​
The Entrepreneur
Driving Force
Self-interest
Worldview
Ethical egoism

Protagonist #2 (f)

Character
The Activist
Driving Force
Compassion
Worldview
​Schopenhauer's metaphysics of will

Protagonist #2 (m)

Character
The Politician
Driving Force
Righteousness
Worldview
Virtue ethics

The eternal Antagonist (m)

​Character
Mephisto
(the devil, the fallen angel)
Driving Force
„I am the spirit that negates!“
Worldview
“…Thus everything that that your terms, sin, destruction, evil represent - That is my proper element.”
Source: Goethe, Faust, Part One, 1808
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