Faust, yearning for the fulfillment of noble purposes in life, accepts help from Satan in this endeavor. He agrees to let Mephistopheles take his soul the moment his goals are fulfilled. Of course, Mephistopheles has no intention of helping him in pursuing any noble purpose, but rather to drag him down into the mire.

He meets a pure girl, Margarita. And although Faust initially feels the noble pulse of pure love, under Mephistopheles' influence, he forgets everything to immerse himself solely in sensual pleasure and enjoyment. Thus, he sacrifices the happiness of his beloved, becoming the cause of her ruin, and along with that, of his own downfall.

However, the moment of bitter repentance soon comes for Faust, who feels the power of national consciousness that will protect him from any future transgression. Thus, the path that Mephistopheles led him on to destroy him brought him both to degradation and to moral elevation.

What remains for the reader of the first part of the work to see is the realization of the second element of divine providence and the main idea of the poet. Therefore, the second part deals with the internal and external path that Faust follows in his continuous search and work to reach the awareness of the beautiful, to pure and free humanism, and to sensible self-restraint.