The Sorrows of Young Werther

Frankenstein. Specific works mentioned are a major part of what and how the monster experiences life, as this is the first time he has been able to learn about the world he has been rushed into. The books cited are Ruins of Empires, Plutarch’s Lives, Sorrows of Werther, and Paradise Lost. All four literary works have a bleak perspective on humanity. These are complete truths to the monster, consequently shaping how he now sees the world. This dark outlook influences his own identity and…

an intelligent creature capable of reading complex works of literature and understanding them to an extent that they impact his character. These 4 books that the monster has either read or had read aloud in the presence of him include: The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe, Paradise Lost by Milton, Plutarch’s lives by Plutarch, and Ruins of Empire by Volney. To perhaps change his attitude towards himself, his life, and humans, I would exchange Paradise Lost for The Bible. The most important…

Impact of Media on the Suicide: The Werther Effect Whether media description of suicide influence to suicide in society has been notable debate. This debate start in the late 18th century with Goethe’s novel which is The Sorrows of Young Werther (Pirkis, Blood, Beatrais & Burgess and Skehan, 2006). In this novel, the protagonist who is Werther falls in love with a woman and their togetherness is imposible. Finally, he decide to take own life. When decide to suicide, he dresses a blue coat, a…

Slater herself writes, "Phillips has dubbed this phenomenon "the Werther effect," because after Goethe published The Sorrows of Young Werther, about an overwrought fictional character who killed himself for unrequited love, a rash of suicides rippled through eighteenth-century Germany (Slater 107)." Slater's point is that Phillips named his findings based…

Creature’s eloquence and intelligence when he begins his narration. He alludes to Paradise Lost, The Sorrows of Young Werther, and Plutarch’s Lives, which were carefully chosen by Shelley to magnify how the Creature’s identity intertwines with his literature and contrasts with the depiction in Frankenstein’s narration. Plutarch’s Life taught him about society and its moral pillars while The Sorrows of Young Werther prompts him to question his identity and destiny. In Paradise Lost, he learned…

I'm going to talk about Voltaire's "Candide" and Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther". The topic of living a fully realized, enlightened life to produce happiness and satisfaction and that would benefit the self and others comes up frequently in the two stories. In Candide, Voltaire's reoccurring quote is "everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds." This is the basic idea of the philosophies of Enlightenment thinkers. To these thinkers, the idea that there was any evil…

Bibliotherapy is defined as the use of reading materials for help in solving personal problems. In Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein”, the monster reads or observes four different novels each of which change his viewpoint of the world and ultimately lead to his demise. However, had the monster read different books he might have been able to be accepted by society and not be so fixated on revenge. The first book read by the monster is Ruins of Empires, written in 1791 by Comte de Volney. The…

One of the driving forces for today’s rising rates of depression and suicide are the dozens of stigmas that pollute the field of psychology. However, one of the most potent and overlooked stigma is that of one’s nation. Most notably, first world countries all have different unspoken standards for coping with emotional conflict. Infamously so, Ireland and the US have stricter, more judgmental expectations for how individuals should manage their mental states. Veritably, "65% of [native Irish]…

The nineteenth century Romantic Movement was viewed as a challenge to the Rationalism Movement of the Enlightenment period. Throughout the nineteenth century, Romanticism is seen through the ideas of philosophers, through artists and their works, and through poems and novels of the era. The characteristics of Romanticism include a power of nature and the supernatural world, the emphasis on emotion and intuition, the embracing of the value of the individual, as well as the rejection of the…

early research has focused more on the media’s portrayal of suicide, imitation of fictional media, the impact of media coverage on suicide, etc. For example, Pirkis and Blood (2001) and Gould (2001) highlight that in 1774, Goethe published Sorrows of Young Werther, in which the hero of the novel shoots himself because he was unable to attain the woman that he fell in love with. This widely read romantic novel had a great impact, especially in Europe. Pirkis and Blood (2001) notes that an…