The Sorrows of Young Werther, Goethe

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The Sorrows of Young Werther
(Tr. Spa-Eng. from a review by leda)

 Sensitivity was the greatest exponent of German Romanticism and is reflected in this great work by Goethe which rather seems an attack on reason, to the point of being censored by religious groups considering it incited to suicide. 

 In 1774, The Sorrows of Young Werther pages were published  in a work that deserved all praise worthy of a text with a grandeur that manifested both in the literary level and the new status that began to evolve into the sentimentality and mood of the time. Young Werther resurrects that legend of unhappy passions to be lived with more frenzy in adolescence, even relinquishing to living. Not only the work concludes in a tragic way for his suicide and his barren sentimental life, but for his insolvency to suit a humanity without hope and vitally undone. Although the work prevailing idea is that of a young man who not only knows love late, but it is also prohibited. Thus, Werther decided to leave his beloved Charlotte to seek refuge in the arms of his work, but for his constant misery, he feels society snubs apart from those who love. Werther begins exile confirmed by erratic life walking in search of a home, a place to feel tied down where taking root, a place where not to feel wiped out and expatriate. But clearly you cannot judge someone who commits suicide, someone who dies because his reason went mad, for a weakness that overcame his strength, his conscience and reason. 

 Werther is conceived in this work as an innocent where not even a miracle could restore his intellectual prime. Despite Goethe tells us the hardships of a young who loved while not intending it, the story takes place among the delicacies of a consistent and appropriate language, demonstrating once again the author's extraordinary literary quality and extreme feeling.