Werther

humans have many different sides to them on one hand they can be good and caring but also, learned that they can be evil and vicious towards one another. 2. The three books that the creature learns from are: Paradise Lost, The Sorrows of a Young Werther, and Plutarch’s Lives. The

In the concluding lines of Faust, Goethe introduces his notion of the “eternal feminine,” or vision of ideal womanhood that would pervade The Sorrows of Young Werther and later European Romanticists. For Goethe, the eternal feminine is not only a goal for women to strive for, but an ideal that will provoke society’s moral regeneration. Goethe’s vision of the eternal feminine intersects with his Romantic appreciation for nature, children, and sensibility, which radically diverge from the rationalist

pages Mary Shelley quotes directly from Byron, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Moreover, the Creature learns language and cultural forms from four major texts: Plutarch’s Lives, Milton’s “Paradise Lost”, Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther, and Volney’s Ruins of Empire that, for better or worse, shape his destiny. Thus, it becomes an exemplary text for scholarly inquiry. Even prior to opening the book, Mary Shelley incorporates intertextuality.

author. specifically “The Sorrows of Young Werther” by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe, and “1984” by George Orwell support Tolstoy’s quote. These authors with their various works show that Leo Tolstoy’s famous quote is true. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe was a German author in the 1700’s. He studied Law in Leipzig, Germany and enjoyed writing love poems. He is most famous for his story The Sorrows of Young Werther was modeled after his own life. “It was the

person when they lose what they deemed to be a requited loving feeling, or an attempt at one. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the creature starts to read what was known as one of the first “romantic” novel of the 18th century, The sorrows of Young Werther among other novels like: Volney’s Ruins of Empires, John Milton’s Paradise Lost, and Plutarch’s Lives of the Nobel Greeks and Romans, or Parallel Lives. This novel influenced the creature in a way that was different from the other texts that predominantly

The four books the monster read to educate himself were: “Paradise Lost” by John Milton, “Lives” by Plutarch, “Sorrows of a Young Werther” by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, and “Ruins of Empires” by Comte de Volney. In “Paradise Lost”, God cast Adam and Eve out of the Garden due to their sin. In this work the monster gained the belief that man should pay for his sins, as well as an identification

"These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings...". In Frankenstein the creature reads books that contributed to his personality. Paradise Lost, Sorrows of Young Werther, Plutarch’s Lives, and Ruins of Empire were the four books that built the creature's personality. If the creature were to read contrasting books his fate and overall personality might’ve been better. To begin with, Paradise Lost is by John Milton. The original sin committed by Adam and Eve is the subject of Paradise

The Werther Effect of Two Celebrity Suicides: an Entertainer and a Politician, a study conducted by psychologists in South Korea set out to observe the possible influence of the Werther Effect on the general public. Researchers considered the cases of two celebrities of different public standing who committed suicide within the span of one year and separately studied how their deaths, along with the way that they were covered in the media, effected the suicide rates of the general population. After

Much like Tiberius, Peter the Great had an overall auspicious impact on Russia with St. Petersburg. During the late seventeenth century, he was a Russian czar both narcissistic and thirsty for power. Mostly because of his reforms, Peter is known to have a positive effect on Russia, though it is debatable. Throughout his reign and life, Peter continued struggling just to maintain power in Europe. His reign marks a dramatic shift in the development and goal of Russia. Peter took Russia into the European

After Graduation Mr. Byrne Joined the Army to show he was not weak. However, according to Mr. Allen Werther he was his roommate in the Army and he followed orders well from the officers. But he knew there were some mental functioning problems with being in the army. Mr. Byrnes was injured one day by several IEU explosion; one hit his tank. He was unconscious for over an hour and according to Mr. Werther his mental status and functioning abilities to cope had extremely become worsen from the incident