This topic is about The Sorrows of Young Werther. Comments Showing of 65 65 new post a comment Β» Β« previous 1 2 next Β». Jul 31, PM. Spoilers allowed here. Please feel free to discuss anything you wish, relating to the book and let us know what you thought :. Poor Werther! He really went off the deep end! I just have a few pages left, but I feel so sorry that he didn't have a good therapist to help him through this! I did enjoy reading the book though. I had never read Goethe and was kind of daunted to start it.
But it was an easy read and very well written! I would never have read it but for this group! This book was very popular when it was first published, and even Napoleon was a fan of the book. Rosemarie wrote: "This book was very popular when it was first published, and even Napoleon was a fan of the book.
I love to know stuff like that :. Well, I just finished the last few pages -- wow! She basically handed Werther the pistols to kill himself! And that letter from him just put the icing on the funeral cake for blaming her. And, the part about him waiting up in heaven for her was kind of creepy -- I don't think I'd look forward to that if I was her. Also, I wonder if her marriage will survive this!
What do you think? Aug 01, AM. From the first page, a summary of Goethe's Sturm und Drang philosophy: "I will enjoy the present, and the past shall be for me the past. It's worth mentioning that the "Sturm und Drang" Storm and Stress movement was a kind of mini-rebellion of Romanticism toward the end of the Enlightenment.
It wasn't until some years later that what we now call the Romantic Movement or Romanticism seriously kicked in. Aug 11, AM. Question: Does Werther inherit the garden from the late Count M? Aug 11, PM. How human Werther is. When he is "too polite" to Frederike and her suitor Herr Schmidt sulks, Werther says: Now, nothing makes me more angry that people who torment one another, particularly if young people in the prime of their lives, when they should be most receptive of all p,assures, mutually spoil their few good days by putting on moody faces, realizing when it is too late that they have wasted something irrecoverable.
