Faust is German for 'Fist'

and is the title of Goethe’s famous play about the successful but dissatisfied scientist Dr Heinrich Faust, who makes a deal with the devil. 

Faust has been performed, referenced and read in schools in the German-speaking world for more than two centuries.

The most tragic character in this tragedy is not the unpleasant protagonist, but his “love interest”, Gretchen.

She is a teenage girl groomed by Old Man Fist, impregnated and, of course, socially ostracised for his crime.
So she drowns her “illegitimate” new-born child, accepts her death penalty and rejects The Fist’s offer to save her from prison.
In God’s mercy, the Christian girl seeks salvation (maybe with the help of the criminal Catholic mega-business, The Sisters of Bon Secours. and off goes Dr Faust with the devil to new adventures in Faust, Part Two...