RE103 Lecture Notes - Aphrodite Pandemos, Charlotte Buff, The Guardians Of Time
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Sorrow"s of young werther- johann wolfgang von goethe. Faust 1808 and 1832- was most famous from this, the ultimate story of selling your sell to the devil and was written in two parts (when he was young and older) Wrote it with a purpose, he disagreed with what he perceived the dangers of romantic love. Story was based on experience on falling in love with charlotte but couldn"t be with since she. It was a best seller around the world was betrothed to someone. He fell in love with a woman and had children with her, they eventually got married. He suffered very much since his young son died early as well as his wife. 1823- was 23 and fell in love with her, the mother disapproved (he was 74)- it can be seen that he embraced passion and critiqued the romantic period.
