A work of , where the hero Anakin Skywalker agrees to become the apprentice of the evil Darth Sidious in order to save his wife, only to lose his soul and his humanity and kill her.
In History , since Oswald Spengler 's '' The Decline Of The West '' the faustian society is synonymous with the Western World . The word is chosen since Spengler believed the entire western society follows a trajectory similar to that of Faust.
In Sociology for example in the writings of Marshall Bermanfaustian refers to the short-time perspective of society in Modernity . It also refers to Faust's desire in the Second Part Of Goethe's Faust , especially act V, to defeat the forces of nature and create a mechanical heaven on earth by draining the seabed and using it for farming.
