Mephistopheles
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1. Mephistopheles - Noun
2. Mephistopheles - Proper noun
Meaning
evil spirit to whom Faust sold his soul
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She concludes that, “Eva was much possessed by death… Hitler was the Mephistopheles who promised it, wooing her (as he had wooed other young girls) toward suicide.
Pretorius serves as a "gay Mephistopheles ", Skal, p. 185 a figure of seduction and temptation, going so far as to pull Frankenstein away from his bride on their wedding night to engage in the unnatural act of non-procreative life.
We’ll resort to crime or trade our afterlife to Mephistopheles just to have this underneath our TV.
"I have news about Mephistopheles.