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Time and Redemption in Samson Agonistes and Iphigenie Auf Tauris

In a recent essay Arthur Henkel has interpreted Iphigenie auf Tauris as a secular variation on the theme of Christian humanism, and by demonstrating the bold and utopian nature of the ethics embodied in Iphigenie's decision to tell the truth he has rescued Goethe's humanitarianism from the charge of avoiding or trivializing the tragic implications of the story. In the following pages I shall elaborate on this interpretation by analyzing Iphigenie's actions as those of a secular redeemer. More specifically, I shall use a comparison with Samson Agonistes in order to show how Goethe's play must be seen as the result of adapting the plot patterns of its Greek sources to the needs of a moral vision which – although secular in kind – retains many of the structures of the Christian universe from which it is derived.