What are the characteristics of Goethe's works?

Goethe's works are numerous, including 140 volumes of poems, novels, plays, translations and natural sciences. Goethe is a world-class writer after Shakespeare. Goethe's first play was 1773' s five-act play Goethe von bell Hinggan, which was the first German realistic historical play. Prometheus is a poetic drama adapted from ancient Greek mythology by Goethe. It is also one of Goethe's early outstanding plays. Goethe began to write Egmont in 1774 and didn't finish it in Rome until 1787. The play still has the reverberation of turbulent movement, but it has shown a tendency to compromise, so Egmont is an important work of Goethe in the period of "Charge" from the theme of resistance to the theme of compromise. The script is based on the history of Holland in16th century. /kloc-The Netherlands in the 0/6th century includes Belgium, part of France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands today. The rebellious spirit of Goethe's plays is more obvious when it comes to Iphigenia in Tauritz. This play is Goethe's only famous play adapted from ancient Greek literature, which marks the change of Goethe's creative style and thought from content to form. The whole script is plain and solemn, without mass scenes, unrestrained feelings and cries for freedom. The structure is rigorous, ignoring the external plot and emphasizing the inner description of the characters. The poetic drama Faust is Goethe's masterpiece. It is not only an unprecedented great achievement in the history of German literature, but also one of the great epics in the history of world literature alongside Homer's epic and Dante's Divine Comedy, which has been highly praised by Marxist classic writers. This is one of the favorite literary works of Marx and Lenin. Lenin was exiled to Siberia by the czar, and there was often a German version of Faust around him. The poetic drama Faust is a masterpiece combining realism and romanticism. The characters, events and environment in the play are full of romantic imagination and exaggeration, and also have the color of fairy tales, but they all have their realistic basis. Contradiction and contrast is an important artistic technique in creating characters in Faust. . The strong lyrical color and bitter satire in Faust are also the obvious artistic features of this poetic drama. Another artistic feature of poetic drama is to develop the activities and development of characters with the magnificent scenes of nature as the background. From the artistic features, Faust can be classified as a romantic drama.