Marlowe's "The Life and Death of Dr. Faustus" was written 300 years before Goethe's version. In Marlowe's version Faust goes to hell. I always found Goethe's

Marlowe's "The Life and Death of Dr. Faustus" was written 300 years before Goethe's version. In Marlowe's version Faust goes to hell. I always found Goethe's ending to be unsatisfying, and prefer Marlowe's where Faust not only accepts, but embraces his fate to be a far better resolution.