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Humanities 4
Lectures 12-13:Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young
Werther
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18th Century German Literature
• Transition from Latin to vernacular and to/from French paradigm– Gottsched (1700-1766)
• Enlightenment literature– Lessing’s Nathan the Wise
• Sturm und Drang (1769-1786)• Goethe and Schiller
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• (1749-1832)• Lawyer, political
advisor, scientist, but primarily author
• Novels, dramas, poetry• Sturm und Drang,
Classicism, and Romanticism
• 210 and 20,000?• Importance
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Goethe’s Major Works
• The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)• Roman Elegies (1790)• Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (1796)• Faust, Parts I (1808) and II (1832)• Elective Affinities (1809)• Theory of Colors (1810)• Italian Journey (1817)
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Outline of The Sorrows of Young Werther
• Main Characters• Plot• Literary Form• Major Themes• Influence
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Main Characters
• Werther– Talented, isolated, emotionally volatile protagonist– Mentally ill (severe depression)
• Lotte– Idealized woman of virtue– Ambiguity in affections
• Albert– Representative of enlightenment values– Despite friendship, incapable of understanding W.
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Plot
• Plot Points– W arrives, meets and falls in love with L– A’s arrival, W’s unhappiness and departure– W’s return, increased woes, climax– Suicide/resolution
• Plot Features– Plot plays only minor role– Few external incursions
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Literary Form
• Epistolary novel– Subjective perspective of main character
dominates• Editorial intervention
– Provides information excluded by epistolary form
– Provides independent moral framework
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Outline of Major Themes
• Nature• Sentimentalism• Social Groups• Suicide
– W’s “justifications”– G’s critical stance– Blame?
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Nature
• Nature vs. social life – freedom vs. constraint
• Nature as an active force and source – vs. something to be mastered
• W’s emotional connection to nature• Transformation in W’s attitude.• Anticipation of Romantic Conception
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Sentimentalism
• Philosophical Characterization– Sentiment/passion vs. intellect/reason
• Literary references– Vicar of Wakefield, Klopstock, Ossian,
Lessing’s Emilia Galotti• “Man is not master of himself, least of
all master of his own emotions” (7-1).• Mourning as a form of love
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Social Groups
• Nobility• Bourgeoisie • Peasants • Children
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Suicide
• Multiple instances of foreshadowing• Only possible resolution?• Werther’s “justifications”
– Natural consequence of disease (8-12)– Relieve suffering (3-16)– Gain eternal freedom (3-16)– Atonement for sin (11-24, 12-20)– Sacrifice (12-20)
• G’s critical stance
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What’s the point?
• Suicide?• Importance of feeling?• Central figure is Werther or Lotte?
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Who’s to blame?
• Lotte?• Albert?• Werther?
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Influence
• Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein• 19th Centure French Opera, Werther
(Jules Massenet)• The New Sorrows of Young Werther
(Ulrich Plenzdorff)
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Summary
• New inner world is revealed.• Fundamental Ambiguity
– In Goethe– In us