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Goethe wrote this when he was 24, just out of boyhood. The prose is beautiful, but the sentiments read like they come from a 13 or 14 year old... very immature, very self absorbed, as that age is. Yes, it was 1773 and people had not been exposed to romanticism. The book caused numerous copycat suicides, and still could in the wrong hands. I wonder how Goethe felt about this work in his later years. I would be embarrassed. For me, this classic was intolerably boring and annoying.
Wow. I do not even know where to start with this.
Yes, there are spoilers. Beware!
Werther is, in so many words, a stalker.
Mourning the death of a young woman (girlfriend? arranged match?), he falls for an engaged woman, Charlotte. He stays at her house as invited, ingratiates himself to her father (a family friend?) and young siblings. Her mother is deceased, she has no female guidance.
She marries. He hangs about. Her husband tolerates him. Makes polite upper-class efforts to get him to go away. ...more
Yes, there are spoilers. Beware!
Werther is, in so many words, a stalker.
Mourning the death of a young woman (girlfriend? arranged match?), he falls for an engaged woman, Charlotte. He stays at her house as invited, ingratiates himself to her father (a family friend?) and young siblings. Her mother is deceased, she has no female guidance.
She marries. He hangs about. Her husband tolerates him. Makes polite upper-class efforts to get him to go away. ...more
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