La Damnation de Faust
Disillusioned with life, the scholar Faust accepts Méphistophélès’s offer of a journey and is shown Marguerite, with whom he falls in love. After seducing and abandoning her, he learns that she faces execution after accidentally killing her mother with a sleeping potion he supplied. Faust agrees to surrender his soul in exchange for her rescue, but Méphistophélès takes him to hell; Marguerite is saved and welcomed into heaven.