Mephistopheles
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Film and novel are umbilically linked, however, by the basic gambit—a “motiveless” crime committed by strangers and therefore difficult to solve—as well as by a riff on the Faust legend, with Bruno as Mephistopheles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
In life, however, Höfgen plays Faust, the weak, tempted one, while the part of Mephistopheles is taken by the Nazi state and its functionaries.
From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2020
Like Faust, he’s incessantly creative and ambitious; like Mephistopheles, he has in a sardonic eye for human vanity and striving.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2018
Slipak, who had won fame in France for his renditions of the aria of Mephistopheles from the opera “Faust,” adopted the nom-de-guerre Meph.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2016
Hers is a necessary but unimportant character, as she has no solo and is merely a foil for Mephistopheles.
From Stars of the Opera by Mabel Wagnalls
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