Effi Briest

ID:10075095 Baron, Marcia. "Was Effi Briest a Victory of Kantian Morality?" Marcia Philosophy and Literature (1988). March 2017. The central theme in Baron's side on the story of Effi Briest is to provide an evaluation of the extent to which the tragedies facing Effi Briest may be traced through the morality theory of Kantian (p. 1-2). The author presents an analysis that evaluates the harsh social environment depicted by Fontane in the late nineteenth century, that evidently prevailed in that narrow

the issue of an affair in which the wife of Baron von Instetten, Effi Briest, had with Major Crampas. Baron von Instetten was “a man of character, position and sound morality.” (Effi Briest, Chapter 2). He was an ambitious civil servant who was highly respected by the people around him. Major Crampas, on the other hand, was the total contrast of Baron von Instetten. He was “a man who has had many affairs, a ladies’ man.” (Effi Briest, Chapter 13). He disregarded rules and regulations and considered

Theodore Fontane’s novel Effi Briest provides a glimpse into a pre-World War I Germany that few other books would be able to. Fontane narrates some of the most controversial issues of his day in the book, including religion, the aristocracy, and politics in the book. Following the world of high-class families at the end of the Biedermeier era, Fontane allows the reader to be given a historical context for how the events of pre-war Germany unfolded. Using Effi Briest as a source of analysis, new context

human affection is recognized as the source of her displeasure under the hand of Junker custom, a desire nineteenth-century Germany had not catered for, as Effi assures her mother: “I'm for share and share alike, and naturally for love and affection too” (Fontane 23). Fontane highlights throughout his novel the lack of and consideration for human affection within the design of Junker norms and conventions. With marriage being identified as a branch of the tree of Junker convention, marriage is ultimately