Faust is similar in that many people get hurt as the result of the protagonists love. Both Faust and Romeo have a moment where they fall in love at the first sight of their lover; “How she cast down her timid eyes, / Deep in my heart imprinted lies:/ How short and sharp of speech was she, / Why, ‘twas a real ecstasy” (87). Thus begins his obsession. He becomes crazed with Margaret, begging Mephistopheles to set up encounter after encounter, even going so far as the sneak into her bedroom while she’s gone. Margaret returns the love in same, being naive and having never experienced love before. She becomes saddened when he is gone, singing a melancholic hymn at her spinning wheel: “My poor weak head/ is racked and crazed/ my thought is lost/ my senses mazed./ My peace is gone, / my heart is sore/ I never shall find it,/ Ah, nevermore” (115).…show more content… A day later they plan to sleep together out of wedlock, but Margaret feels hesitant, not because she feels he’s being too hasty, but because her mother is a light sleeper and will hear them. Faust comes up with a solution: “Thou angel, fear not!/ Here is a phial: in her drink/ but three drops of it measure/ And deepest sleep will on her sense sink”(120). The poison, however, is too strong; that night as they make love, her mother dies. The next day, Margaret is out in town with Faust, and she discover her brother Valentine has come back from the army to confront her about rumors of being with a man. He tries to beat up Faust, but Mephistopheles aids him in such a way that he accidentally murders Valentine. Margaret cradles him in his last moments, and he gives her his harsh parting words: “Thy business thus to slight,/ So this advice I bid thee heed-/ Know that thou art a whore indeed,/ Why, be one then,
