The birth of a masterpiece - the beginning and end of the writing of "The Troubles of Young Werther"

A "The Troubles of Young Werther" made the world know Goethe's literary genius, and also made some emotionally rich men and women shed tears.

Goethe graduated from the Strasbourg School of Law in 1772 and went to Waitler the following year for a routine apprenticeship, often gathering with a group of young people who were passionate about each other. Among these men, he befriended a mission secretary, Kestner, and a taciturn young Yalesal saidullaine who was a clerk. The latter is distressed by falling in love with a colleague's wife.

One summer night, Goethe went to a country ball. His girlfriend asked him to invite a female companion. This is Charlotte, the daughter of an old judge. Charlotte is 19 years old and has the responsibility of caring for a group of younger siblings left behind by her deceased mother at home.

It is said that Charlotte is not very beautiful, but her gentle manners and virtuous virtues captured Goethe's heart. From that ball, Goethe couldn't get rid of her shadow in his mind. Although it was later learned that she was Kestner's fiancée, this did not stop his love. He often went to Charlotte's house and spent some time with the unmarried couple. He became close friends of the fiancée, and the pair was bitter to Goethe, and the unmarried couple understood this, but there was no way, the open-minded Kstner and the chaste Charlotte were reluctant to show anything and hurt Goethe's heart, because they respected his talent. Naturally, there is a subtle psychological mustard in the triple room. It is said that Kestner secretly had the idea of abandoning Charlotte, but Charlotte frankly stated that she only wanted to be loyal to her fiancé.

Distressed, Goethe felt that the smartest thing to do was to leave on his own. On his way back to Frankfurt, Goethe visited a female writer. The female writer had a daughter named Marcie Meiling, who was only 16 years old, and had a beautiful face and charming eyes. So Goethe's heart was touched again. But in the end he still went home with the sadness of lost love.

Life at home was dull, and the memory of Charlotte became the center of life. Goethe had no other way to get rid of his pain, and felt that he needed to write something to express it to be comfortable. The form of the novel is very good, but a young man falls in love with a woman who already belongs and finally leaves disappointed, this subject matter is too ordinary!

But soon after, an unexpected event occurred: Yales Salem finally committed suicide in despair because he fell in love with his colleague's wife. He committed suicide by pretending to travel and borrowing a pistol from Kestner. This news greatly excited Goethe. He caught the plot of the novel. He wrote to Kestner to learn about the situation before and after Yales salem's suicide, and also conducted a field investigation. But when I wrote it, there was a conundrum again, with The magnanimity of Kestner, how could the protagonist of the novel form a reason for suicide?

It was during this period of confusion that a new event came. Maxie Married to a businessman in Frankfurt. The merchant was old, a widower, and his ex-wife had left many children behind. Maxie Had to take care of the children. Merchants have money, but no tenderness. This combination was painful for Marcy Meiling. Thus Goethe's visit was very popular. His handsome appearance and dashing attitude not only won the favor of Maxie Meiling, but also won the hearts of the children. He became a regular visitor to the family. But the rich merchants were jealous of Goethe. When he could not bear it, he refused to continue to communicate with Goethe.

This new stimulus made Goethe very uncomfortable, but it touched his inspiration. The unanswered conundrum in writing is that the storyline of the character's personality is all there.

He mixes his love for Charlotte and His love for Marcy Milling with the Yale Salem incident, which forms the outline of the whole story. Werther is himself, with the fate and feelings of Jerossale, but lacks Goethe's own intellect: Charlotte is still Charlotte, with the advantages of Both Maximilian and Charlotte; her fiancé Albert is the embodiment of Kestner, but not as magnanimous as Kestner, but with the selfishness and narrow-mindedness of a rich merchant.

The characters' thoughts and personalities are modeled, and Goethe takes his love affair in Wiesler as the backbone of the story. The thoughts and personalities of several characters are arranged in the story, and along the plot, the protagonist Werther has a reason to naturally embark on the path of suicide.

The Troubles of Young Werther was born.