The troubled teenager will stay forever on that day, under the willow trees by the lake on a summer afternoon, with the clear water of the lake in his eyes. But we will always grow up and always take on more. We walk hard forward, knocked down by the wind and sand again and again, but we always stand up, and the meaning of life may be in this tenacity.
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The young Witt is confused and persistent, and when he grows up, tastes more of life, recalls the ideals abandoned by himself, and recalls the youthful and beautiful feelings, will he feel sad at that time? Not necessarily. At that time, he may have lost a lot, but what he got was the happiness that time had carved on his face, the kind of tenacious happiness. When he can't do whatever he wants in his relationships, those social connections pull him back and save him from floating into the air because of the unbearable lightness in his life.
Witt is like a butterfly trying to fly against the wind, and he is finally blown by the wind to the other side, but this does not mean that his efforts are useless. Werther's life was a life of regret, but not a life of weakness, and he always insisted on what he insisted on, so I think that "The Troubles of Young Werther" is a sad hymn written by Goethe for idealists.
"The difference between poetry and fiction is that the purpose of poetry is to obtain ambiguous pleasure, not explicit pleasure, but the novel is to let you clearly feel the joys and sorrows of the characters." 」 Edgar Allan Poe said.
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In the process of writing novels, there are always some linguistic techniques that can be used, the author can criticize some phenomena in the novel, and can construct a world of his own imagination, and these are all driven by the author's ideas, for some clear purpose, in order to get a clear feeling. But poetry does not have any skills, every beautiful poem is the poet poured his emotions into the composition, poetry abandons all the constraints of the writing, and even abandons the poet's own control of emotions, so that simple, without any routine language can make the reader have strong emotions in the depths of his heart.
"The Troubles of Young Werther" is such a novel, he is a novel in style, but his language is as sincere and dangerous as poetry. Perhaps it was precisely because of this that the book caused an uproar in Germany as soon as it was published, and everyone read the text as if they were seeing an old friend of their own, or just themselves.
The depictions of love in the book now seem to be wonderful, which makes one wonder whether Werther is a story written by Goth based on himself. If this is not the case, it is necessary to wonder how to write this deceitful word without experiencing this crazy love?
Witt is very important in everything about emotion, and his sensitive and eager, longing and entangled, entangled and desperate, desperate and enthusiastic heart is always tormented, like a bird willing to toss and turn in the thorns and scars to sing a wonderful song. It is difficult for such a person to get pleasure, and it is always unusual for people to get supreme luck in the satisfaction of food and clothing. Therefore, such a person can always feel his own misfortune, a kind of worry seems to unfold in front of him, and from now on, no matter what kind of state of mind he has, he can never get rid of this destiny of worry.
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The sentence in the text: "I calmed myself from Ruo Xuanang's hard work I don't know how many times." Because such an uneven, such an unstable heart is something you have never seen before. Friends! You watched me move from boredom to exuberance, from Gan's gloom to irritability, and you were constantly worried about me, I needless to say. I guarded my heart like a sick child, doing whatever he wanted. Witt jumped into the sky for the joy of LuTi's little, and the situation that swirled in vain in the hopeless sadness of the usual day was extremely moving. Xu Zhimo's poem "I Wait for You" also expresses a similar mood.
In the text, for love, there is a fable-like sentence, which is extremely appropriate to describe. That is, "Man is created to be persuaded by the most risky of speech." Yes, revealing our emotions puts us in such a dangerous position that we glorify the brilliance of reason, seeking responsibility and rules to restrain our frivolous hearts, but still easily persuaded by risky remarks.
But Witt's unfortunate enthusiasm is not only based on the pursuit of love, in my opinion, his tragic fate may come more from the search for the meaning of life and the disillusionment of ideals.
The tension-rich tragic figures that are prevalent in Western literature are always talking about life and death in pursuit of something, they are obsessed with alcohol and tranquilizers, and they dispose of their bodies haphazardly, but in fact, they are always just a little child who lacks love. But unlike the mad dionysus, Werther never despised his or other people's lives, his thinking was mature and steady, and life was extremely precious to him, so the meaning of life would appear incomparable. He has thought about it, he has adhered to it, he seems to understand a little but not so precisely, he has his own ideals, he is an idealist, but the ideal is always compromised with reality, but is it an ideal that compromises with reality, or an ideal?
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The tragic color of Werther is not as warm as the heroic epic, but more like the endless resentment of the East. This resentment is not directed at society, nor against the people around it, it points more to one's own contradictory heart. "Why can't you live like everyone else?" Is giving up ideals a terrible thing? Does life necessarily need meaning? "It is his arrogance, his meanness, his nobility, his predicament. But he did not have the courage to indulge in pleasure, nor the freedom and unrestricted pleasure of emotion, or the gift of reason to maintain the best of his ability.
"When he is aroused in joy, when he sinks in sorrow, it is the fullness he longs for, precisely because he cannot have it at the same time, and then returns to his ambiguous, calm consciousness?" Just thinking of all these things, thinking of the beautiful brilliance he has imposed on his imagination, those plots that are always similar and never fall into the clichés, are somewhat cool in the sense of a little bit, but everything in this world seems to be happy because of this tragedy.
The Troubles of Young Werther is a great tragedy, but I don't think it's a backwater of despair. The meaning of life, whether it is an individual answer or a universal truth, has not been answered from beginning to end. But that doesn't mean the question is meaningless, nor does it mean that there is no answer to the question.