About This Novel
"The Sorrows of Young Werther" is regarded as the most important novel of the Sturm und Drang era. This novel had a very high print run of that era and triggered a "reading craze". The novel is written in the form of an epistolary letter and adopts the first person point of view. It tells the story of Werther's "wonderful joy" when he first arrived in Valheim, the respectable and lovely villagers and priests around him, and his heartbeat and pure emotions when he first met Lotte. Everything is so beautiful that it makes people have the urge to cry. However, Lotte was already engaged, and Werther followed the advice and found a small position in the official residence. However, he could not stand the minister's faultfinding, and was judged as arrogant by the people around him because of his unworldly thoughts. In the end, he was humiliated at a party, so he resigned and returned to Walheim. But the lovely and innocent old acquaintance was gone forever, but Werther was trapped in a fruitless love for Lotte and couldn't extricate himself, and finally committed suicide by drinking a bullet.
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