In Goethe's Faust the two main characters are seen as male figures, one of which is indeterminable. Despite the blatant macho vision of this book, the book could easily be used by the modern feminist as a feminist vision of Goethe's society. As for the novel used by the feminist movement, their purpose would be to show how women were/are seen versus how they truly are. Generations of Faust readers and critics have seen Gretchen as a sign of selfless, idealized femininity, ultimately leading to Faust's redemption. Even looking at the commonly seen roles that Margaret falls into, it only shows the use of the novel to bring awareness to the female character's plight. When we look at the gender system, Gretchen's story seems to be presented as a story of seductive and self-destructive female sexuality, anchored in the symbolic scenes of witches and the sexual revelry of Walpurgis Night. It is also a story of infanticide and confinement in the Faustian patriarchal world. Gretchen's supposedly female voice is, in fact, very different from Faust's eloquent self-presentation in soliloquies and dialogue; but it is a voice shaped and controlled by Goethe according to late 18th-century notions of gender. We can begin to see how her character was written to form the ideal woman or "angel of the house". In Faust, Margaret was at the beginning a very pious and virtuous woman. She devotedly attended church, worked for the betterment and care of her family, and kept herself pure in the eyes of the public. Margaret's brother was proud of his sister's resistance to her nature. Her family was considered good because of the female members, but as soon as a woman succumbs to her nature, her family becomes ashamed. Like the seduced hymn... middle of paper... the hero; she alone faces the figure of the devil and turns towards the path of the righteous. Her coming-of-age story in “Faust” from an innocent girl to a woman ravaged by the world and ultimately to her salvation from society and evil, her character holds a power not usually seen in pre-modern literature. To give her the full power of the novel would be to rewrite the story with a female Faustian character as the heroine, as Louisa May Alcott did in 1877 entitled "A Modern Mephistopheles." This novel can easily be seen as a feminist work, showing the power of the overlooked woman. As Gretchen's life is drastically altered by a mysteriously androgynous demonic figure, the strength that Margaret ultimately displays after he breaks all of her moral codes and unknowingly serves the devil proves that she is a great female character and one step closer to literature. of the period.