《少年维特的烦恼》中的人物分析

1、Abstract 1. An introduction to The Sorrows of Young Werther1.1 Author introductionJohann Wolfgang von Goethe is a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and ae

2、sthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him exist.A literary celebrity by the age of 25, Goethe was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Karl August i

3、n 1782 after taking up residence there in November 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther. He was an early participant in the Sturm und Drang literary movement. During his first ten years in Weimar, Goethe was a member of the Dukes privy council, sat on the war a

4、nd highway commissions, oversaw the reopening of silver mines in nearby Ilmenau, and implemented a series of administrative reforms at the University of Jena.The most important of Goethes works produced before he went to Weimar were G?tz von Berlichingen (1773), a tragedy that was the first work to

5、bring him recognition, and the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (German: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) (1774), which gained him enormous fame as a writer in the Sturm und Drang period which marked the early phase of Romanticism.Goethe had a great effect on the nineteenth century. In many respect

6、s, he was the originator of many ideas which later became widespread. He produced volumes of poetry, essays,criticism. Goethe embodied many of the contending strands in art over the next century: his work could be lushly emotional, and rigorously formal, brief and epigrammatic, and epic. He would ar

7、gue that Classicism was the means of controlling art, and that Romanticism was a sickness, even as he penned poetry rich in memorable images, and rewrote theformal rules of German poetry.In 1832, Goethe died in Weimar of apparent heart failure.1.2 Introduction of WorkThe Sorrows of Young Werther is

8、mostly made up of a series of letters that Werther, the title character, sends to his friend Wilhelm. In these letters, Werther shares his artistic endeavors and his philosophies on life. For example, Werther believesthat feeling deep emotions is the best way to experience life. He also believes in

9、being artsy and creating rather than being bogged down by an industrial job that he doesnt want. In fact, Werther moves to a small town in the countryside (Wahlheim) in order to get away from modern city values and to go back to what he believes is the simpler life in the country, where he makes fri

10、ends with some of the locals.One of the friends that Werther makes is a woman named Latt He falls 曲 love with her because she is caring and responsible; she takes care of her family and her sick mother, and Werther recognizesthat she is faithful and devoted. Unfortunately for him, Latt is already en

11、gaged to be married. Werther becomes more and more infatuated with Latt anyway; he thinks that they are meant to be together and have much more in common than she does with her husband-to-be, Albert. However, since Latt is in fact faithful and devoted, she refuses to leave Albert and Werther is so o

12、vercome with sadness and frustration that he leaves town for a job in the royal court at Weimar.However, things get worse for Werther at Weimar. He does not enjoy his job and though he makes friends with two aristocrats named Count C and Fraulein von B, the fraulein snubs him at a party and embarras

13、ses him, which is the last straw for Werther at Weimar. He moves on to spend a bit of time with a friend before going back to Wahlheim in order to see if he can get Latto returnehis love one more time.In Wahlheim, he finds that one of his friends is dead and that Latt and Albert are still together.

14、Werthers insistence on trying to be more than friends with Latt ruins his relationship with Albert and eventually, Latt tells Wertherthat he must stop coming around her after he tries to kiss her instead of remaining platonic friends.Since Albert has won Lottes heart, Werther decides that he would r

15、ather die than remain miserable. Werther sendsa letter to Latt easking for Alberts pistols, saying that hes going on a journey and will need them. Lattsadly sends e them over, not knowing what Werther plans to do, and Werther uses the pistols to commit suicide.In the end, he dies after being in a co

16、ma for twelve hours, watched by Latt e and Albert, and he is buried without a church service underneath a tree.Werther, a young teenager,has freedom to live depending on his fathers legacy for a strong interest to natural scenery and simplicity of village life. Heavenly beauty, Castle Peak Glen, daw

17、n twilight, village boy girl are the most beautiful scenery in the country life These make him feel like living inparadise and forget all the troubles. Not long after at a ball werther met the daughter of a local judge Latt and tehen he cannot help fell in love with her. He danced with Latt aend fel

18、t as if the world remains two people,only two of them. Although Lattehas been engagedwith another important person in this story albert, Werther was still attracted and loved her involuntarily. After the party, they excitedly stand by the window, looking deep into the Latt eaffectionately. Werther h

19、as an absolute understanding that he Fall in love the whirlpool. He burned into tears and kissed her hand.Since then, although the sun and moon all have a circulation of rising and falling, while you can not tell Werther which are the day and which are the night. All his mind are occupied by the bea

20、utiful girl Latt e. Albert,lotte unmarried husband came back unpredictablely, he loves Lattand Weerther and treat them very well. They often talked about Latt e. The green foothills leisurely stream, floating clouds can no longer make him calm, he often feels itself small, uncomfortable night, he of

21、ten dreamed of Lattesat beside him, woke up this morning, but the bed only one person, he only sigh bad fate. Finally persuaded by friends, he decided to leave the beloved Latt, leaving theat once brought himjoy and happiness of the small village.Werther returned to the city, in the legation when th

22、e clerk. Hed try to adapt himself to the job, but full of bureaucratic superiors of his work carping, always make things difficult for him and his colleaguesalso alert beware, lest others than their own, all this led him to a lot of distress. Just when he felt bored, by chance, he met a reverend C E

23、arl. C Earl honest humility, learned of Werther friendly and very trust, bring some comfort to Witt.Count one day invited him home for a meal, but after a meal to a group of nobles, they look with haughty contempt looked Witt. Even people he knew and did not dare to talk to him, urging him to get ou

24、t of the count to come here, no matter where he went, ridicule can see the faces and hear sarcastic remarks, he angrily finally resigned office.He should be a general marquis was invited to go hunting village, and he wanted to join the army during, but under the advice of the Marquis, and soon gave

25、up the idea. Marquis treated him well, but he always felt uncomfortable there. He has missed the Latt, pulling his mind went back to the original village. Village scene, though still, but Renshiquanfei. Latthad become beloved Alberts wife, and kind-hearted villagers one by one tragic death. He went

26、to visit them who made a painting of two children, but the childs mother told him that her son had died; he had told him to visit the innermost secrets of the farmer, just before he met on the road, said the farmer himself he was fired because he boldly expressed love hostess, her brother was afraid

27、 he stole his sisters property and fired him. No less than a thousand times that he wanted to hug Latt even if her e heart once pressed, will fill the void inside, but did not dare to see her hand.If winter comes, the weather is getting cold, the plants are dry, and desolate. He saw the result of lo

28、ve and Latt lost their jobs and crazy youth, can not help but shock. Later learned that farmers who were fired to kill people, Witte was very sympathetic and wanted to save him, to make every effort to defend him, the result was against judges. Save not make him into a deeper grief, he felt he dead

29、end, suffering extreme annoyance, despite their own feelings towards thetragic outcome driven step by step walk.One days before Christmas, he came around sweetheart Latt p the final farewell. At this moment about to extinguish the fire of love and radiate light, his elegy for Latt recitation of Ossi

30、an, and hugged her. Two days later, he left very much to bear testament midnight, while he silently Latt! Latt ! Do not, ah, do it!, While her husband picked up the pistol end of his life, at the same time also the end of their troubles.Lotte,a girl, is another important person in this story,whoWert

31、her loved very much. She was born in that village,whosefather is a judge but he is not healthy and whose mother died. She lived with her six brothers and sisters. Before the mother died,she asked lotte to take good care of her six siblings. At that time her youngestbrother was only 3 months years ol

32、d. Since then, Latt e would take the burden of her motherroleand take care of younger siblings life.And she won the love and respect from her six siblings.Shewas loved by werther while she cant gmiveevheirything he wanted.That is because she has aboyfriend and loved him.They has an appointment to ma

33、rry.2. Character Image Analysis of The Sorrows of Young Werther2.1 Character Image AnalysisWerther, who was born in a civil family ,was quick witted, emotionally rich and delicate. He is keen to the nature and freedom. He sing a song for the nature from his heart and embrace the nature heart and sou

34、l. A tree,a fence,a scenic beauty and the rising frog ,the burning sun,the Blooming flowers All of these interests wether.The nature in his eyesis a helpful medicine to cure his hurted spirit.So he can express his love for the nature as he love. .Werther devoted himself to nature and praised the bea

35、uty of nature, depending on the nature of the divine place; he is a person close to nature, innocent children and simple villagers. He despised the pedantry nobles, hypocritical people and bad parenting people; he advocated art of nature and let the genius free play against all the rules and the sha

36、ckle; he respectedfolk poet Homer and Ossian, for ancestorsof the Homeric descriptionsof plain living, and artificial aristocracyand commonplacefor profit of the public life of his attention to the natural misfits; sincere feelings, cherish his heart more than anything, sympathy for lovelorn girls a

37、nd Dutch act crime the young farmhand, contempt of religious beliefs and legal ethics, very dissatisfied with the rational man like Albert Hesaid he Charlotte love passionately devoted, an important reason is that she is so innocent, keep a cute girl in the act of nature. Victor calls for natural, i

38、s actually not cry against nature of the feudal society. He longed for a plain and quiet rural life and often wandered in the beautiful and harmonious pastoral scenery,lingering in between the mountains and rivers.He talked with honest villagers to feel warm and simple folk customs. He played with t

39、he children to feel and enjoy the purity of life.He advocate the Nature and freedom while he is pure and stubborn, independent to yearn for freedom. Therefore, he followed his independence of heart , and never hide his love and hatred.He depise high official positions and riches.he respectfor that m

40、y heart is my only pride, it is all my strength, all happiness, all the pain and all the only source. He despised the secular hierarchy and held on the equality of man and man. He respect for the honesty of one s actand speech.he abandon the sophisticated and hated hidebound officialdom, noble and v

41、ulgar affectation of the public. He regarded love as the natural right of human and cherished the true feelingsof nature. He advocatesthe art which ruled by nature.He love the folk poet Homer and Ossian and regard true feelings and true expressionof nature as the art of life.He believed that only na

42、ture is infinitely rich and only natura can create a great artist.However, even in the public class, werther is lonely. The oppression of the feudal forces on human nature and the alienation of human nature in the capitalist societyall of these sharpen the social contradiction of the civil class wer

43、ther is Proud and arrogant and he disdain to be with vulgar people,which suffer their hate and attack. The loss of love, talent repression, dirty environment, make unpleasant feelings in the stuffy Yu and Victor heart rooted more and more deep, gradually occupy the whole body. This was a sincere ent

44、husiasm, aloof andsensitive soul, in the real world collision was reduced to fragments. He struggle in anguish hardly and did everything he can do to get rid of all the real situation. but anger and anxiety swallowed all his natural power,finally only tired remained. His is completely disappointed a

45、t life, love, to the society.finally he was lost in the dark dream and cant walk out of there.He slowly destroyed himself in ponder.Finally,he end in his young life with a cold bullet.werthers sorrow is the tragedy of the society and the tragedy of the class. In the 1970s, the German youth spirit wa

46、s severelydepressedand devastated, thought depressed, eager to get rid of the feudal nephew of orange, but the lack of power struggle, with their weakness, so it is generally negative and decadent sentiments. Young Werther is a typical intellectual youth was awakened. He has a clear understanding an

47、d profound insight on life, he is the social contempt and disdain for the so-called future relations, status, ethical codes of social rebellion, the ugly reality of hate. He was angry and hate to reality, not in the dark environment and feel powerless, drag out an ignoble existence, cannot resist th

48、e stubborn and powerful feudal forces, in the lonely and unbearable in mind full of contradictions and at a loss, anxiety, anger, irritability, anxiety and mood to distress and melancholy, finally to the society despair, the cost of his own life, do a thorough break with ugly social decay.lotteWerth

49、er and Lotty were congenial companions, and they Connect with each other on a soul level .so it is natural for them to develop love between them.So lotte became the most one who knows, understand and support Werther. Since then the love of werther to lotte has become his pillar in his happy and sati

50、sfied life. Lotte ismage is also unforgettable, who is beautiful and lively, cheerful. Not only does she love singing and sings well, but also she is good at dancing and dance pretty well.She love play pianos and reading.The conditions in her home made her being well educated.she is friendly and kin

51、d to everyone she knows. She followed the social rules under the education of her family conditions. Before her mother leavedthem, Six younger brothers and sisters were given to her by her mother. And at that time the youngest brother was only six months. From that time on, lotte had assumed the bur

52、den of her mothers giving her, and taken good care of her younger brother and sisters life.She did everything she can do to achieve the responsibility as a sister. What she did for the whole family help her earn the love and respect of his brothers and sisters. As werther initially saw her give the

53、bread to her brothers and sisters in the intimate touching scene. He was surprised at that and believed that lotte is a loving and kind.Latt 百s a very literary girl. She ever said: In the works of my favorite author, I can see the writer of my current world again. This can be understood as: her favo

54、rite work is something that can be used to reflect the reality of the life. she is familiar with the reality of the work, from which we can find something that she has the feeling of the poor literary works. After a shower of rain pouring down, fresh air comes out. And she remember that she ever rea

55、d a book about the rain. Later she had listened werther perform the poems. She was deeply moved she had a feeling of their unfortunate from the people who is unfortunate in their noble life. They feel it together and they tears together. Thus we can see that she and werther have a common thoughts an

56、d interests to appreciate literature. It shows that she has been infected with some crazy female spirits. though that is not strong, after all she has a breathe of some fresh air in the world.However the deepest impressions lotte leave us is not all that we mentioned above but her surging and unstop

57、pable feelings in her heart which she stand on the border line and hang back the feudal society public morality. What she love most is werther who has the consistent thoughtsand common language as lotte.This point is not changed whenever before and after her marriage with albert. When she saw that t

58、he bonds of affection can not be sustained after her marriage., she does not want to break the relations with werther but had a vision of change werther become her brothers. when she realized that this doesnt cometrue finally. What she hoped is to introduce a girlfriend for him. So she think ofall h

59、er girlfriends one by one but failed. That is because she think that everyone she consideredall have a shortcomingsand all of them cant be introduced to werther. After such repeated thoughts and ideas. She had a deep desire in her heart and she clearly knows that she want to occupy werther for herself. She love werther in her heart and this never changed.But she did not think very clearly, so she also said to myself, she can not and never keep werther to stay