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This is a 5 page paper that provides an overview of symbolism in Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther". Emphasis is placed upon the symbolic use of language and weather. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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of popularity, unprecedented among novelists until that point, is almost entirely attributable to one of the authors first works, a small epistolary novel by the name of "The Sorrows of
Youth Werther". A short book, Werther manages to fit a lot of complexity into its slim number of pages, mining as it does the German character during Goethes time with
an emphasis on raw and sometimes irrational emotion. As a precursor to Romanticism, works like "Werther" fall into the genre of "Sturm und Drang", a genre which makes great use
of symbolism to convey thematic truths. In "Werther", this is best expressed in the symbolic emphasis upon both reading and language. "Werther" is a novel composed primarily of letters
written by the title character to his friend Wilhelm. Werther has escaped the confines of the city and moved to a country hamlet where he feels he has found an
agrarian paradise more suited to his emotionally sensitive temperament than the fast-paced struggles of the big city. Of course, he is also running away from an unwanted relationship with a
girl. Werther idealizes the lifestyle experienced by the peasants and accepts when he is invited to a local dance. At the dance, he meets a woman named Lotte with whom
he has an instant rapport. During this part of the novel, Werther expresses his state of affairs in flowery, joyous language that admirably expresses the emotional nature of his experiences.
However, he soon finds out that Lotte is engaged to be married to a man named Albert. On Wilhelms advice, Goethe leaves the city and tries to distract himself in
various ways, but his passion for Lotte is too all-consuming; he soon returns to the country. There, he finds things changed - where he once used joyous language, he now
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