![]() We have all been in Werther’s position, or have watched a loved one in it: maddened by a love we know is hopeless. A short novel, Werther makes for an intensely frustrating read. ![]() Enthroning Feeling, he sets consistently at naught social convention, his own wellbeing, and the feelings of his friends and family. Werther has intelligence, and “a noble nature” – but he is also a fanatical Romantic. This epistolary found-material / pseudo-true-story format was popular in Europe at this time Werther exploits this format to offer a short, sharp tale of love. Werther is structured primarily as a series of letters Werther writes to his friend, Wilhelm short segments of the narrative are told in third-person, again based on Werther’s epistolary productions. Werther moves to the countryside, takes up an indolent pastoral life, and promptly falls in love with a woman he knows, from the beginning, is engaged to another man. The Sorrows of Young Werther follows a young man’s love affair. ![]()
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