The motif of compositional cyclicity within J.Goethe’s ‘Faust’

‘Faust’ is a true masterpiece of the world literature. For many years, literary critics have been striving to decipher a series of complex codes and symbols laid down by J. Goethe, alongside the writers have exploited the motifs that are actual within ‘Faust’. This work examines the motif of compositional cyclicity and the concepts that are collateral to it. The scientific novelty of the work reveals itself in the presentation of the new broad compositional classification based on the stages of protagonist’s personality development and in the disclosing of the act-concept.