If all of the elements of this lesson plan are employed, students will develop the following powers, skills, and understanding:
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Students will explore the undertones of homosexuality that run throughout the novel, and discuss how they pertain to Victorian perceptions of gay people.
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Students will consider the value of art, and what sorts of relationships one can have with art.
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Students will learn about the history of Faust and the Faustian bargain that has been adapted and reimagined numerous times throughout literary history.
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Students will consider issues of morality and ethics, and how people develop different moral compasses over the course of their lives.
