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The book "The Troubles of Young Werther" shared yesterday. The author, Mr. Goethe, is one of Germany's greatest writers, not one. Together with Homer, Dante and Shakespeare, he is known as the world's four great literary heroes.

In addition to being a literary scholar, Goethe was also a painter, aesthetician, politician, educator, natural scientist, and physicist, and he was recognized as an unborn genius. Goethe came from a privileged background, his father was a doctor of law, he was a royal senator, his mother was the daughter of a mayor, he was good at telling stories, his language was rich and vivid, and he often put Goethe on his knees and told him all kinds of interesting stories. And Goethe was also drunk. This had a great influence on his later career in literature.

Goethe developed a keen interest in literature at an early age, but later, his son took on his father's orders, worked as a lawyer for a while, and worked as a painter for a while. Between 1772 and 1775 he turned to literature and produced a large number of famous works. "The Troubles of Young Werther" was written at this stage.

After 1775, Goethe was also active in the study of geology, mineralogy, human anatomy and botany. He has written a variety of natural science works and made important scientific contributions. The jawbone was first found in human embryos.

From 1775 to 1786, in order to improve the real society, Goethe went to the Duchy of Weimar to engage in politics, but achieved little, so in 1786 he went to Italy to continue to concentrate on the study of natural sciences. In 1788, Goethe returned to Weimar as theater superintendent, and in his later years he lived a life of seclusion, working tirelessly to create.

It can be seen that Goethe's life experience is very rich, but his richest is still emotional experience. Goethe himself was a notorious lover. Zhou Guoping said that without love there would be no Goethe. Some people joke that Goethe's life was mainly about doing 3 things, writing, being an official, and falling in love. He wrote a total of 129 works, most of which were set in his own love life. Young Werther is actually a spiritual sustenance of young Goethe.

In 1772, at the age of 23, Goethe experienced a unrequited love affair. Once, Goethe and his aunt took a carriage to a ball in the countryside, and on the way they met Charlotte, a girl who was 19 years old at the time, born beautiful and very likable. Goethe fell in love with her at first sight. After the ball, Goethe often went to Charlotte's house to play, and the more contact he had, the deeper he fell.

In the end, Kant desperately confessed his love to Charlotte. Unexpectedly, Charlotte told Her fiancé Keystet about Goethe's confession. Kecht was also a friend of Goethe's, and the situation was very embarrassing. Fortunately, Keith was also a magnanimous man, believing in his fiancée and his friend Goethe. The amorous Goethe opted out. After leaving a letter for Charlotte and Keith, he fled back to his hometown of Frankfurt. At this time, Goethe's good friend Yelcharin encountered the same embarrassing thing. Yelcharin also fell in love with someone else's wife, and also committed suicide because he could not stand the accusations of public opinion.

Both of these events caused Goethe great pain, so he used these two events as a model, borrowed the form of letters, and in only four weeks he created one of the most prestigious novels in the history of literature. The publication of The Troubles of Young Werther caused a huge sensation and made Goethe famous.

At that time, a Witt fever was set off between european boys and girls. Everyone wears Witty-style clothing, speaks Witt-like language, imitates Witt-like demeanor, and learns Witt-like manners. Witt became a popular symbol. How did such a seemingly failed youth touch young readers? What are the differences in Witt's body?

In fact, Wetter has many valuable qualities. He emphasizes his heart over and over again, and he asks others to see his heart. He is also proud of his own heart. His heart is the heart of a pure child. We can talk to our children about the characteristics of this heart.

This heart loves nature, whether it is a green mountain valley or a morning light, it will make him feel excited. In his eyes, the canyon is lovely and the sun is naughty. It sneaks into the sacred places of the dark forest. He lived in a troubled little world, filled with thousands of small grasses and moths.

This heart is somewhat childish and touched by nature. The heart is innocent, and in dealing with the issue of inheritance, Witt discovers that the aunt despised by her family is actually a warm-hearted lady. Witt then lamented that misunderstandings and stereotypes often cast more faults in the world than deceit and malice.

Witt also believes that adults are not much smarter than children. Children don't know what they want, but how can adults know what they're busy for. This star is a lover of equality, a lover of freedom, he believes that people in this world should be equal and love each other, and he believes that hierarchical differences are contrary to human nature.

In the countryside, commoners worship Werther, but he is willing to help the maid carry water and take the initiative to share food with the children. I don't feel more noble than the countrymen. In his career, he also did not value the adult pursuit of those good roads, and he strongly doubted what the meaning of making a difference was.

He even believed that a farmer who grew potatoes to be shipped to the city to sell was not necessarily inferior to a high official. In fact, these excellent qualities of Witte are pinned on the ideals of the Enlightenment. Older friends can also take advantage of the situation for children to popularize the spirit of the Enlightenment. Freedom, equality, spiritual pursuit, and natural liberation are also embodied in Witte.

So countless Young Europeans feel that Witt is the idealistic figure in their hearts. Even the depiction of Werther's experience, Werther's love, serves a specific theme.

Traditional literature tends to a grand narrative perspective, homeric Dante's Divine Comedy is all about the state or society, but The Troubles of Young Werther turns its attention inward and describes the inner feelings of the protagonist. Europe was in a chaotic era, and revolutions were in full swing. Goethe responded to this era with Werther, and he wanted to tell everyone that the pursuit of personal happiness was more important than the struggle for power, more important than feudal etiquette. But these pursuits are very powerless in the face of the times.

Before Goethe, German literature was largely didactic. It was either religious or political, literature was something for the nobility and the townspeople, and no one cared about the little people. Look at the young Werther, it is a flat thunder, for love, secular etiquette, traditional morality can be left behind. Without preaching, without entertainment, literature can write about small people, about the resonance of young people.

So that's why this book has epoch-making significance. This book is a mirror of the times, but also a contemplation of the times, a sigh of the times. This is not a novel about love, but an idealistic manifesto. But as an excellent young man as Witt, the ending is an uncompromising tragedy. Is it appropriate to share Witt's story with your child?

In fact, we can also explore with children whether Werther's tragedy can be avoided. There are two aspects, one is the level of literature and the other is the level of reality. In a literary sense, the tragedy of Werther is inevitable, and the love that Werther pursues is a symbol of spiritual pursuit. His love is pure love rendered in literature. He loves nature, loves children, loves Luti, all because it's natural and in keeping with nature.

In nature, he has no worldly bonds. In the children, not contaminated by adult rules. The reason why he loves Lu Di so deeply, so persistently, and so deeply is also because from Lu Di, he sees the embodiment of nature. As a lovely maiden, Lu Di is close to nature, and has the true simplicity, purity and beauty that nature gives.

He also carried this spiritual pursuit and went on a rampage in his career. Wittpin waited, but the world only valued titles, and he was even humiliated for it. He is clean and self-sufficient in the official arena, while his colleagues and colleagues around him are hypocritical and powerful. He wanted to become a confidant with the earl and the marquis, but was painfully aware that the magnates would only be vassals of elegance, rather than truly understanding him.

A talented young man is cynical and unwilling to compromise. Compared with his spiritual pursuits, this reality is too crude and ugly. His love, his sorrow, his suffering, let him bear too much.

The purer he is, the more he sets off the impurity of the world. The more he pursues nature, the more he sets off the bound nature of this world. The more intolerable he became, the more it illustrated his unwillingness to compromise. The more reluctant he was to compromise, the more he highlighted the absurdity of that era.

Witt is the ultimate other side of the hearts of countless European youth, and the more profound his tragedy is, the more it indicts the era, and the more shocking it is. However, on a realistic level, Werther's troubles are not incurable, and the big friends who understand Werther's troubles are also understanding adolescence.

As Mr. Goethe put it, the obstruction of luck, the restriction of activities, the unfulfilled wishes are not of a special era, but of misfortune that everyone can encounter. It would be a pity if one had not gone through a stage in his life when he felt that "The Troubles of Young Werther" was written for himself. This stage is puberty. Today's children see Werther's troubles, and they will also think of themselves, ask for nothing, encounter setbacks, and be sentimental. The defilements do not disappear automatically, and knowing where the defilements come from can solve them.

Adolescent children need the attention of parents, and attention is for enlightenment. Guide the child to recognize the beauty of Werther and avoid the tragedy of Werther. Witt himself needs to be enlightened. His favorite place to be enlightened is his persistence. Attachment is his strength and his weakness.

He is obsessed with love and does not actively integrate in reality. He fantasizes more than he acts, and only suffers in his heart. Adolescent children also have strong self-esteem and are respected by everyone in the countryside. He was insulted at the banquet of the nobility. This deeply dampened his self-esteem, making it impossible for him to be with this group of people anymore, and he resigned in anger.

It's like the grass house shared earlier, where a bald crane that has injured itself will do extreme behavior to sabotage school activities. So protect your child's self-esteem in order to continue communicating.

Fundamentally, adolescent children need to understand and affirm. Much of Witt's troubles came from the people around him who didn't understand him. After the death of her father, Jackie Chan's mother moved her family from the paradise-like countryside to the city that was not comfortable with herself. Instill in your child the idea of making a difference. His relatives and friends also felt that it was not a proper job for him to indulge in literature and art. The father's teaching is missing, and the mother's love is missing. When he met The Green Di who knew him, Witt was like a drowning man, grasping a life-saving straw, completely plunging himself into a heavy emotional quagmire.

So, though, in a literary sense, Witt may have to say goodbye to the world. But in a practical sense, Werther's tragedy is avoidable. What needs to be told to the children is the real feelings, not the deformed bitter love, but to make the two people better. True value also requires self-approval, rather than self-pity as soon as someone does not approve of it.

Werther is an extreme literary figure, but he is not a realistically correct figure. When the novel was republished in 1775, in view of the fact that young people in society had imitated Witte's suicide, Goethe felt it was necessary to clearly warn them that this was an undesirable magic.

Goethe specially added a preface to the second volume, aiming to exhort people to "be a dignified man, and follow in the footsteps of Mobuvit.". While leading children to read, big friends can also remind children that the romantic Werther rejected reality, and the realistic Goethe left many spiritual wealth to future generations.

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