In the prologue to Goethe’s Faust, part I, the Devil makes a bet with God that he can seduce any mortal away from his morality. In the first act the Devil then makes a second wager with the known-to-be-moral mortal, Dr. Faust. He offers Faust the opportunity to do anything he wants, to be the master, as it were, of the Devil himself; but in return, when Faust dies he will go to hell,...