Abstract
Even for a work as unique in scope and wealth as Faust, the two Walpurgis Night sequences are strikingly uncommon. The Nordic Walpurgis Night of part 1 presents an entire array of supernatural figures, Faust’s companion, the Devil himself, being foremost among them. The Walpurgis Night Dream that follows is filled with fairy-tale figures and fantastic creatures of nature, some benevolent, others more obstreperous. Both passages satirize the menage humaine but seem to have little connection with the action of the larger work, unless it be to relieve the anxiety and horror of the tragedy.
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