Goethe's main works

Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749- 1832) was the most important German and European writer and poet from the middle of18th century to the beginning of19th century. His life spanned two centuries, which coincided with the great social turmoil and changes in Europe. The gradual disintegration of the feudal system and the continuous rise of revolutionary forces prompted Goethe to constantly accept the influence of advanced ideological trends, thus deepening his understanding of society and creating the best contemporary works. Goethe 1749 was born in a wealthy citizen's family in Frankfurt Town on August 28th. He studied law at Leipzig University and Strasbourg University and worked as a lawyer for a short time. When he was young, he dreamed of becoming a painter. While painting, he also began to create literature. But when he saw the works of famous Italian painters, he felt that no matter how hard he tried, he could not compare with those masters, so he began to concentrate on literary creation. 1775- 1786 in order to improve the real society, he applied to be an official in the principality of Weimar, but there was no result. 1June 786 went to Italy to concentrate on natural science and engage in painting and literary creation. 1788 After returning to Weimar, he served as theater director. Goethe was the main leader of German hurricanes and sprints. His works are full of the rebellious spirit of soaring movement, and he has made great achievements in poetry, drama and prose. His major works include the drama Gertz von bell Hinggan, the novella young werther, the unfinished poetic drama Prometheus and the prototype of the poetic drama Faust, as well as many lyric poems and essays. Gertz von bell Hinggan is the first German realistic historical drama. Goetz was originally a German Charise Carnes in16th century. He once took part in the peasant uprising and later betrayed the peasants. As a knight and a representative of the dying class, Gotz rose up against the existing system, which was a tragic confrontation between the knight class and the emperor and feudal lords. But under Goethe's pen, Goethe was written as a hero who opposed feudal tyranny and strived for freedom and unity. He deeply sympathized with the people's sufferings and rebuked those rulers who fought for rights and brought disaster to the country and people, so he was loved by the people. The condemnation of the dark society at that time, the ardent yearning for freedom and unity, and the praise of heroes who resisted by individuals all showed the spirit of sturm und drang. In art, the play adopts the method of Shakespeare's drama creation. Young werther is an epistolary novel. Victor, the hero, is a young man from a citizen's family. He yearns for a free and equal life and hopes to engage in useful practical work. However, the society around him is full of class prejudice and vulgar habits. Conservative and corrupt officialdom, vulgar and obedient citizens, arrogant aristocrats constantly clashed with the reality around them, and he himself fell into hopeless love and finally embarked on the road of suicide. The conflict between Victor and society is of anti-feudal significance. Through Witt's tragedy, the novel exposes and criticizes many unreasonable realities in German society at that time, and expresses the revolutionary sentiment of the awakened German youth. Therefore, as soon as it was published, it aroused strong repercussions, formed Witte fever, and soon spread to European countries, becoming the first literary work of various countries with great international influence. The work tells the story of 24-year-old Goethe going to Vizla on business. On the way to a dance, he met a girl named Charlotte by chance and fell in love at first sight. Charlotte, the fiancee of Goethe's friend costner, was 15 years old, while costner was 3 1 year old. Goethe was so infatuated with Charlotte that he desperately declared his love to her. This made Charlotte panic. She told her fiance Goethe's confession, and Kesternan didn't care. Goethe was shocked to learn of this situation. For himself and Charlotte, he immediately fled back to Frankfurt and broke off this inappropriate relationship. A few months later, another friend of his, Yercharin, committed suicide because he fell in love with someone else's wife and couldn't stand the accusation of public opinion. Goethe was deeply moved when he learned that. He wrote the novel Young Werther based on Yercharin. This novel made him famous for a while. Gorky's famous sentence is a poetic drama adapted from ancient Greek mythology. Although the script has not been finished, the fragments handed down have expressed Goethe's strong anti-feudal spirit when he was young. Prometheus in the play denies Zeus' rights, opposes Zeus' arrogance and wants to create a new human being who despises Zeus as much as he does. Victor's lack of tenacity is reflected in this mythical figure. In the first ten years of Goethe's stay in Weimar, Goethe was busy with affairs and seldom wrote. After arriving in Italy, he successively completed some works that he had started, including Iphigenia of Doris and Egmont, as well as some chapters of Tasso and Faust. The play Egmont is based on/kloc-the history of the Dutch people's struggle against Spain in the 6th century. Egmont was a vacillating aristocratic opposition in history, and Goethe wrote him as a hero fighting for national freedom and unity, which was loved by the people. However, he lacked positive action and advocated taking moderate measures, and was finally executed. The play still retains the revolutionary sentiment of the hurricane movement, but the rebellious spirit of the characters has been reduced. Iphigenia of Doris is based on Greek mythology. The hero Iphigenia is in a foreign country, but he can move the king with perfect character and fraternity, change the barbaric customs there, and establish the principles of humanity and justice. Goethe's creations in his later years are extremely rich, such as autobiographical works Poetry and Truth, Travels in Italy, novels Affinity and William Meister's Roaming Times, lyric poetry collection and the second volume of Faust, which were completed shortly before his death. These works show Goethe's thought of attaching importance to practice and affirming to work for human happiness, indicating that the positive factors in his thought have increased compared with the previous period. Faust is Goethe's masterpiece. It took him 60 years to write this masterpiece. The first part of Faust was completed in 1808 when the French army invaded, and the second part was completed in 183 1 August 3, 2008, at the age of 83. This immortal poetic drama. Taking German folklore as the theme and German and European society since the Renaissance as the background, this paper writes that a senior intellectual of the emerging bourgeoisie is dissatisfied with reality and tries his best to explore the meaning of life and the ideal life path. It is a poetic drama that perfectly combines realism and romanticism. Although Master William's Roaming Times is not as attractive as Master William's Learning Times, it focuses on the search for an ideal social system, believing that people can only obtain the meaning of collective welfare through active labor, and its thoughts are relatively open and positive. Many of Goethe's lyric poems in his later years shone with the light of materialism and optimism, and shone brilliantly in the German literary world where negative romantic literature prevailed at that time. The completion of the second part of Faust highlights Goethe's new development in thought and art in his later years. 1832 On March 22nd, Goethe passed away. Goethe is the most outstanding representative of German national literature. His works have raised German literature to the advanced level in Europe and made great contributions to the development of European literature.