The echoes of this attitude are a constant even in works that do not share the same historico-cultural setting. For example, in Goethe's Dr. Faustus, Marguerite, the young peasant girl in love with Faustus, ends up committing suicide. This tragedy that has often been considered as a victory of the Old Regime, can be thought of, as Marshall Berman points out, as a form of escape from the medieval world towards modernity (1986).
