GER 1790 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Exclamation Mark
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When werther refers to nature and the past, he uses an exclamation mark! Consider binaries, nature, and resonance when writing your essay. Albert, lotte, and werther are in a love triangle (both albert and werther love lotte, but lotte and. Werther is looking for purity (lotte) because the new society was dirty, corrupt, tainted, and very vulgar. Werther wants to find and attain the one and only thing good left in life. Werther"s conclusion is that if you can"t have purity or what you want, then you give up; you are supposed to comprehend suffering (wisdom/knowledge) and you are supposed to attain wisdom.
