Mozart's The Magic Flute

This article is a comparative analysis of Wolfgang Von Goethe sequel of Mozart’s The Magic Flute written by Robert McFarland, who is a professor at Brigham Young University where he teaches the German language and the German culture. He evaluates the continuum that Goethe followed by having Tamino and Pamina represent the strict polarizations between the gender roles that Mozart and Shikaneder marked in the libretto. Furthermore, he explores how the original opera illustrates the dispute between genders for power, in which women lose entirely becoming objects that merely follow men to marriage. After stating that the ultimate loser is the Queen of the Night, he explains weakness is attributed to her lack of a male supporter. For McFarland,