Johann wolfgang von goethe (1August 28th, 749-1March 22nd, 832), born in Frankfurt am Main, is a famous German thinker, writer and scientist. He is the most famous representative of Weimar classicism.
As the creator of poetry, drama and prose, he is one of the greatest writers in Germany and an outstanding and brilliant figure in the field of world literature.
1773, he wrote a play "Gotz von Berlichenken", which was famous in German literature. Young Werther was published on 1774, which made him famous. 1776 began to serve Weimar principality. He finished Faust at 183 1 and died in Weimar the following year.
Goethe is not only good at painting, but also has extensive research on natural science. There are lyric poems, blank poems, group poems, long narrative poems, pastoral poems, historical poems, historical dramas, tragedies, poetic dramas, novels, short stories, educational novels, epistolary novels, autobiographical poems, essays and other literary works.
The most famous novels are Young Werther (1774), Faust (1774 ~ 183 1) and William masters (1775 ~ 65438+). Young Werther was warmly welcomed by the masses because it reflected the anti-feudal wishes of a generation of young people and made Goethe enjoy a world reputation from now on.
Faust is based on the legend of Dr. Faust in Germany in the16th century, and it was processed and transformed. It is an artistic summary that advanced bourgeois people constantly explore and pursue during the rise of European bourgeoisie.
Tragedy is not only magnificent in structure and colorful, but also combines realism, romanticism and symbolism, which makes the whole thoughts, words and deeds of Faust and Mephistopheles the devil form a dialectical development relationship between good and evil, action and emotion, and success and failure.
Goethe's brilliant achievements in his life, especially in his later creation, are inseparable from his insistence on this realistic principle. Goethe led the crazy and tenacious sprint in his early years and tended to romanticism. But later, I realized that romanticism was "morbid" and turned to classicism. The classicism advocated by Goethe is essentially realism.