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Goethe: The troubles of young Werther, the unbearable depression of life

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Depressed people are looking at the world with depressed glasses.

"The worries of the heart are like the clothes of a bandit." Quiet words and thoughts, can not fly", the feeling of worry, ancient times. From the Book of Poetry to the Chu Ci, there are cold expressions of emotion. "Worry" is the expression of sad emotions by human beings. People, things, things, scenes in the outer world, as well as our own understanding of things, will affect emotions.

Healthy emotions will make people relaxed, happy mood, look at the sky blue, see the water green, brisk mood, let people feel like a bird can fly into the sky high. Low emotions can make people sad, sadness is downward heaviness, like carrying baggage, the more sad the heavier, so that you can't extricate yourself. If this mood persists for more than two weeks, there is a possibility of depression.

In ancient Chinese poetry, poets are the best at writing sorrow, from light to heavy, and then to unbearable, writing the impact of melancholy on people's emotions.

Goethe: The troubles of young Werther, the unbearable depression of life

People who wear depressive glasses

Explain the light to severe of depression in poetry:

No: The apes on both sides of the strait could not stop crying, and the light boat had passed through the Ten Thousand Heavy Mountains. This is Li Bai's old age, he was sentenced to prison, he was met with amnesty, he had just been released from prison, he was desperate, and he was brisk as fast as a fly.

Mild: Free flying flowers are light as dreams, and boundless rain is as fine as sorrow. This is a girl's sad mood, encountered the spring flowers and the light rain, lingering spring sorrow throughout the spring, faintly outlining a piece of love.

Moderate: Only afraid of the Sungai sternwheeler, can not carry a lot of sorrow! This is Li Qingzhao's later years, 1135, shaoxing 5 years of spring, "gambling books to consume the fragrance of tea" days have long become an old thing, and now the country is broken mountains and rivers, things are not people, alone, even if "spring is still good", the boat carries a heavy melancholy.

Severity: Ask the king how sad he can be, just like a river of spring water flowing eastward! A few sorrows, in fact, are many sorrows, such as gushing rivers, running endlessly. What Li Yu had lost was his homeland for forty years, three thousand miles of mountains and rivers, and mingyue leaning on the building, unable to look back. The rushing sorrow flows in the heart day and night, and it is overwhelmed with sorrow!

Extremely severe: No one in the country knows what I am, so why should I have the old capital? Qu Yuan's ideal of "beautiful government" could not be realized, and no one in the Chu kingdom could understand Qu Yuan's deep love for his homeland, and even if he was exiled, he would never forget his homeland, but the sad thing was that the homeland could never go back. The chinese people were all intoxicated in the present, and only Qu Yuan was soberly worried about the future of his homeland. But his beloved homeland abandoned him. The extreme of sorrow was overwhelmed, so Qu Yuan threw himself into the Bijiang River, allowing this body's hatred to melt in the Miluo River.

A person without sorrow is as light as a swallow, and his whiskers are over the Mountain of Ten Thousand Weights. Mild depression is a faint melancholy, gently crossed the heart, leaving a faint sadness, can write poetry, can paint, sublimate into a work of art. Moderate depression is a heavy burden, and pain and sadness are intertwined. Severe is unbearable, wandering on the verge of collapse, severe depression should be intervened in time, otherwise it is very dangerous. Extremely severe, people have fallen into depression and are going to be engulfed by desperate circumstances. Qu Yuan threw his depression into the Miluo River and let the Miluo River bear its heaviness.

Witt's troubles, like Qu Yuan's, are depressions that life cannot bear.

Goethe: The troubles of young Werther, the unbearable depression of life

Depressed Werther (Teenage Werther's Troubles Cover 1)

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Werther's troubles are Goethe's troubles.

In 1774, when Goethe's Troubles with Young Werther was published, thousands of readers were overwhelmed by the book, and everyone rushed to buy and circulate it, and Goethe became a well-known young writer at that time, this year Goethe was 25 years old. It was the first big explosion of his talent.

Witt is a rich and beautiful young man, wearing a tuxedo, he has the enthusiasm of a poet, he has a love of nature, he likes to paint, abundant emotions are like a river flowing in the spring, he is synonymous with innocence and beauty. He went to the town to deal with the heritage, and the pleasant scenery of the town brought him endless happiness.

There is a smart, beautiful girl in the town named Luti, and Witt is obsolete, but Luti already has a fiancé. Witt had no choice but to leave Luti.

Werther wanted to seek self-worth in his career, but was harassed by petty officials as a clerk; despised by the nobility at the earl; uncomfortable with the marquis. The only thing I can't put down in my heart is Lu Di. But back in the mountain village, Luti is married to a woman. The kind villagers he liked, and suffered all kinds of misfortunes, one blow after another, causing Werther to fall into a deep despair, and in a very severe depression, he ended his life with a pistol, and at the same time ended the pain.

Witt's troubles were also the voice of millions of teenagers in Europe at that time who pursued freedom and individual liberation, and Goethe was their representative, so Werther's story resonated warmly as soon as it was published.

Goethe: The troubles of young Werther, the unbearable depression of life

Witt and the Beautiful GreenTie (Illustration of The Troubles of Young Werther)

Werther has many shadows of Goethe and the youth of that era.

After graduating from college, Goethe became a lawyer according to his father's expectations, but his defense was always like a poem, and he was called a "bard". Dad was so angry that he contacted the Supreme Court of the Wetzlar Empire for Goethe and asked Goethe to intern there. Goethe also wanted to go out and travel in search of creative inspiration. The writers of this small town were friends with Goethe, and Goethe came here to meet with them, play games, and discuss problems.

Goethe met the Luti girl at the ball, Goethe described her, fresh as a spring flower, her heart is noble, kind, Goethe was deeply attracted to her, often went to her home to her younger siblings to tell the beauty of nature, poetry, recitation of Homer's epic, Goethe felt very happy, but this happiness soon disappeared. Because Luti was already engaged, her fiancé Kesterner returned to her side. The three of them spent some time together, and Goethe felt very embarrassed and left Wetzlar and returned to Frankfurt. After that, they often exchanged letters and maintained a good friendship.

One day Kestner wrote to Goethe that their mutual friend Jerusalem had committed suicide. Jerusalem was a classmate of Goethe's at leipzig university, and Jerusalem was very talented, and the well-known playwright Lessing of the time was a good friend, and he often published articles in the newspapers edited by Lessing. Jerusalem was a melancholy man, and unfortunately he fell in love with his friend's wife, and when he was rejected, he could not bear the blow so hard that he borrowed a pistol from his good friend Costner and committed suicide.

This event had a great influence on Goethe, who for a long time was in the pain of losing a friend and disappearing a living life.

During this time, Kösterner and Luti were married, and Goethe found a place where there was no one, and he cried bitterly, feeling that his mood was the same as that of Jerusalem, and he was sad.

Why does a person live such a painful life? Such questions, coiled in Goethe's mind all day long, asked himself again and again, looking for answers. His passion made his heart bulge like a sail, constantly swelling and swelling, and he had to write it down, and Goethe sat down and completed The Troubles of Young Werther.

Two years after Goethe left Wetzlar, in September 1774, at the Leipzig Book Fair, The Troubles of Young Werther became a bestseller.

Goethe wrote himself, Jerusalem, Luti, and Kstner into The Troubles of Young Werther, and as a youth spokesman for his time, he expressed their thoughts on life and society.

Goethe: The troubles of young Werther, the unbearable depression of life

Teen Werther's Troubles Cover 2

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Werther's death is Goethe's mourning of love and youth.

Youth is a stormy period of time, coming out of a protected family and integrating into society, which is a new test for everyone. Whether a person can successfully complete socialization and find his own position of adaptation in society is the most difficult test for a person to socialize.

Youth is the time when energy is most abundant, and a passion always hopes to sprinkle on the most desirable things.

Goethe: The troubles of young Werther, the unbearable depression of life

Young Goethe

The first is emotion. Emotional problems are actually relationship problems during adolescence. The most challenging problems facing adolescence are emotional problems. It's a new kind of relationship, it's not like family affection, it's born, it's fixed, people naturally have parents and siblings, and friendship is easy to get.

Emotions are the driving force of the body on the one hand, and the driving force of emotions on the other. Young and young, when you see the opposite sex you like, you will have a beautiful experience bathed in white moonlight, in the past life and this life, heaven and earth, you are the only one, just like the "butterfly", you are the only Liang Shanbo, she is the only Zhu Yingtai. It cannot be destroyed, and if it is broken, it may be destruction.

The second is the ideal. The boat of youth is to set sail towards the ideal, to find the meaning and value of youth, just like Goethe, at the age of 25, he published the book "The Troubles of Young Werther", which is famous all over the world, which is the embodiment of great value. The sense of worth was not lost, even though he had also lost the Green Lady, but he was only mourning and crying.

Both Werther and Jerusalem committed suicide with the loss of love as the last straw that overwhelmed the camel. They have lost their beloved, and the whole person is like a hollowed-out shell. For teenagers, it is easy to go to both ends of cognition, either burning or extinguishing. Both Werther and Jerusalem chose to extinguish because they did not burn.

The emotional and cognitive characteristics of adolescence are that they have not yet learned to think flexibly. Even if it is not completely burned, it will not be extinguished, because there is still a middle ground, which is the spark of stars. Lost ideals and emotions can be searched for again, but if you lose your life, you lose everything.

Goethe: The troubles of young Werther, the unbearable depression of life

Witt and Greentie (Stills from The Troubles of Young Werther)

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Adolescence is prone to depression, pain due to emotions and ideals, inability to redeem, despair. When depression is mild, it is like removing the dust from the body, and with a gentle wipe, it is clean. In the middle, it is like a small wound, and it is necessary to take medicine and wait for the scab and scab to fall well. When depression is severe, the harm to people is already great, and bad emotions are accompanied by physical discomfort. Wait until the extreme depression has become a sea of overwhelming forces, which can engulf people. Both Werther and Jerusalem collapsed into overwhelming depression.

Reference: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-5

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