Faustian Bargain Essay

There is a limit to the amount of power and knowledge one can have in this world, Faust saw this. Faust was a hero for his legendry actions and thoughts. He wanted more and more power and knowledge to the point to where he would betray his own beliefs and mind set to get it. That is exactly what he did he made a Faustian bargain. A Faustian bargain comes from when “Faust, the legend, traded his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge.” The actual meaning isto “strike a Faustian bargain” is to be willing to sacrifice anything to satisfya limitless desire for knowledge or power.” A Faustian bargain is still relevant in society today, there are Faustian bargains being made some for bad reasons and others for the better good. In Articles “Obama’s
27, 2015 Eric Edelman talks about a bargain between the United states and Turkey concerning US missions. For the past year the United States government and the Turkish government have been arguing. The US wanted the Turkey to let them conduct missions and let planes and other aircraft fly over their land for military purposes. Finally, an agreement was made that let the US fly the planes over Turkey. But this came at a cost Edelman says that too much was put on the table and that too much was sacrificed. He says this agreement is going to give problems “both for the success of America’s anti-Islamic State campaign and for the stability of Turkey” (Edelman 1) Erdogan the president of turkey wants to keeps the middle east out of Turkey. So he starts conduction missions to bomb some part and what this creates is tension. Taking out the Kurds may seem like a good thing in the present but is very bad in the future. This would allow some areas to actually be a safe place where these Islamist groups could hide and not be safe. Tukey taking out the Kurdish forces is a big problem says EDELMAN. There are some ways that Edelman thinks that we can somewhat control Turkey so they don’t make things worse. Edelman states that “restrict Turkey’s access to senior-level meetings, reduce intelligence cooperation and withhold American support” (1) is a way to deduce the amount of damage Turkey is doing.
Both of the authors of these articles uses Faustian bargain lustfully and gives evidence that it happened. It is important to know that Faustian bargain still happen and for the most part it can affect a lot of people not just the person who made the bargain. For every limit there is always someone that wants to break it and get past it and sometimes they are willing to give it all