The Sorrows of Y oung WertherThe writer of The Sorrows of Young Werther is Johann Wolfgang V on Goethe.He was born in Frankfurt am Main,Germany in1749,and died at the age of eighty-two.Goethe is a thinker ,novelist, playwright ,poet, physicist, artist and politician.As a writer of literary theory ,statesman and physicist,he is the most famous representative of classicism in Weimar,and he is the greatest Germanic writer as an litterateur .His father is strict and serious,in contrast the mother is considerate .Both of them have great influence on Goethe.His life across two centuries, when the European social turbulence of the era of great change. The growing collapse of the feudal system, the revolutionary forces continue to decline prompted Goethe undergo advanced thinking, so as to enhance their sense of social awareness and to create the best contemporary works. Goethe is the important representative in Sturm and Dang in German,so his works almost reflect the rebellious spirit.His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany,anatomy, and color; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, and more than 10,000 letters,nearly 3,000 drawings. Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther are his famous works.This is an epistolary novel.Werther is a talented artist who are young and sensitive but has a very good taste in nature and art.He falls in love with Charlotte who is the daughter of a local judge during living in a village.Charlette is a considerate and tender woman and has resonance with Werther about many minds.She likes him,too.However,Charlette has been engaged with a good and successful man named Albert,so Werther has to leave for another place with pain.Unfortunately,Werther is still so desperate and painful because of feudal hierarchy and prejudice that his sensitive heart can’t accept those people’s pedantic and hypocritical behaviors and minds.When he returns again,though Charlette has married with Albert,his passion about love doesn’t fade away.He can’t stop himself missing and visiting Charlette but he respects Charlette and doesn’t dest roy her family.As a result,Werther shoot himself with a pistol lent from Albert.The Sorrows of Young Werther is an autobiography.When Goethe interned in Tanothhe Empire Supreme Court in Wetzlar,he met the young Charlette Buff and fell in love with her.But Charlette Buff had engaged with Johann Christian Kestner,a legal worker.In her father’s opinion,Kestner was more reliable and calmer thanGoethe who was young and talented in art,and that time Goethe wanted to be an artist instead of a lawyer.So Goethe had to leave her.After that,he met another girl named Anna who was the daughter of a council adviser,but he failed again.Differently,Goethe didn’t take his own life but continued writing compared with Werther.The figure Charlette described in the novel is the combination about Charlette Buff and Anna.The more important content of this novel is about a tragedy of love among Werther,Charlette and Albert.The first time Werther meets Charlette,she dresses herself in a simple white robe trimmed with pink ribbons and is cutting loaf for the little ones all around.In addition,the resonance between them towards things and figures are so intense.Werther is attracted by the simple girl’s simplicity and resolution but the most important is the inner world.Werther’s love is so genuine.Werther’s love has no social purpose but pure emotions.He loves Charlette with all his energy and attention.He respects her personal intents and doesn’t force Charlette to be with her.Particularly,he represses his enthusiastic passion when knowing Charlette has been engaged.The Sorrows of Young Werther was published in 1774.This novel makes many people living in that time touched by and weep for Werther’s tragedy,even killed themselves after reading the novel.Then what cause Werther’s love t ragedy?I think we have two main reasons:First,the social situation.In 18th century,Europe was facing the important social revolution,French Revolution would break out.The era of capitalism was on the way,but feudal influence was still very strong.In order to relief his pain and forget the love,Werther decides to leave the village to work.But the fact is that he feels more desperate.For example,once Werther visits The Court of C and attend in an assembly.However,the people look upon him and don’t want to sta y with him as a result of classes.Besides,he feels it so hard to find someone who really pays attention to his heart.Second,his own sensitive emotions.He is a talented artist and shows his aspiration,sympathy and disgust to the nature and humanity.When he can’t stop himself loving Charlette,he chooses to hide away.But he never gives up actually.Hence,he has to take his own life in order to finish invincible pains.It’s said that Napoleon Bonaparte, the famous French emperor,has read this novel for several times and carried it during wars.The story about Werther has influences in the whole Europe even world.First,it shows us, especially adults ,how to love with respect,equality and sincerity.Every person will experience the process of loving and be loved.To love is a mark that we say goodbye to childishness and we should cope with love wisely and morally.Second,equal and liberal love and marriages are oppressed by feudal autocracy and Zion and they only support grade marriages and arranged marriages.Many people weigh the love with prices.Incontrast,Werther’s love is respectable,pure and liberal and it shocks the feudal moral awareness so strongly.Third,the young intellectuals have been oppressed for a long time and they are so sensitive and painful.They long for equality and liberty enthusiastically.Just The Sorrows of Young Werther expresses their hope so that they become the body of readers.Fourth,the type of writing is particular compared with other books.The epistolary style leads us to understand the figu re’s inner minds and emotions.In the many letters written by Werther,it shows us the nature’s beauty and the process about Werther’s beautiful but painful love story.How sensitive and sincere Werther is!When we read these letters,we smile,laugh,annoy,cry and weep just like what Werther has done.I think that’s why so many people have resonances with the Werther and Goethe.Many people express their sympathy to Werther’s suicide,the reason is tha t Werther tries hard to achieve professional success so that he can relief the pains from love,but unfortunately he fails and push himself into the ending of live.Of course, in that time and terrible social situation,his suicide is worthy of sympathy.However,he is also coward and lonely.He fills his heart with sadness and hopelessness and cries for the hope.But the new world are approaching,hope doesn’t disappear and the personal success can be achieved. We admire his love, but we can’t admire his suicide. He killed himself ,and also killed his love. After the death, his love came to be a history, it never can came true..Nowadays,we live in 21th century.Our society are a liberal society and we support liberality and equality.The love and marriages are free and never oppressed by the class and church.There is no doubt that we are fortunate and it is the reasonable results of development.The Sorrows of Young Werther is still a very famous novel,and it has many educational values,such as how to deal with the barriers on our way to the heaven of love,how to understand our emotions and control them,and so on. The novel can contributes to our love experience and live.This is a wonderful novel which is worth reading.I hope you will be the next reader.。