The suffering of the young Werther is about what. "The suffering of young Werther

It is this genre, characteristic of the literature of the 18th century, that Goethe chooses for his work, while the action takes place in one of the small German towns at the end of the 18th century. The novel consists of two parts - these are letters from Werther himself and additions to them under the heading "From the publisher to the reader." Werther's letters are addressed to his friend Wilhelm, in which the author seeks not so much to describe the events of life as to convey his feelings that the world around him evokes.

Werther, a young man from a poor family, educated, prone to painting and poetry, settles in a small town to be alone. He enjoys nature, communicates with ordinary people, reads his beloved Homer, draws. At a country youth ball, he meets Charlotte S. and falls in love with her without memory. Lotta, this is the name of the girl close friends - the eldest daughter of the princely amtman, in total there are nine children in their family. Their mother died, and Charlotte, despite her youth, managed to replace her with her brothers and sisters. She is not only outwardly attractive, but also has independence of judgment. Already on the first day of their acquaintance, Werther and Lotta reveal a coincidence of tastes, they easily understand each other.

Since that time, the young man spends most of his time every day at the amtman's house, which is an hour's walk from the city. Together with Lotta, he visits a sick pastor, goes to look after a sick lady in the city. Every minute spent near her gives Werther pleasure. But the love of the young man from the very beginning is doomed to suffering, because Lotta has a fiancé, Albert, who went to get a solid position.

Albert arrives, and although he treats Werther affably and delicately hides the manifestations of his feelings for Lotte, the young man in love is jealous of her for him. Albert is restrained, reasonable, he considers Werther an outstanding person and forgives him for his restless disposition. Werther, on the other hand, finds it hard to have a third person during meetings with Charlotte, he falls into either unbridled merriment or gloomy moods.

One day, to get a little distraction, Werther is going to ride into the mountains and asks Albert to lend him pistols on the road. Albert agrees, but warns that they are not loaded. Werther takes one pistol and puts it to his forehead. This harmless joke turns into a serious dispute between young people about a man, his passions and reason. Werther tells a story about a girl who was abandoned by her lover and threw herself into the river, because without him life has lost all meaning for her. Albert considers this act "stupid", he condemns a person who, carried away by passions, loses the ability to reason. Werther, on the other hand, is disgusted by excessive rationality.

For his birthday, Werther receives a package from Albert: it contains a bow from Lotta's dress, in which he saw her for the first time. The young man suffers, he understands that he needs to get down to business, to leave, but he keeps postponing the moment of parting. On the eve of his departure, he comes to Lotte. They go to their favorite gazebo in the garden. Werther does not say anything about the upcoming separation, but the girl, as if anticipating it, starts talking about death and what will follow it. She remembers her mother, the last minutes before parting with her. Werther, excited by her story, nevertheless finds the strength to leave Lotta.

The young man leaves for another city, he becomes an official with the envoy. The envoy is picky, pedantic and stupid, but Werther made friends with Count von K. and tries to brighten up his loneliness in conversations with him. In this town, as it turns out, class prejudices are very strong, and the young man is constantly pointed out to his origin.

Werther meets the girl B., who vaguely reminds him of the incomparable Charlotte. With her, he often talks about his former life, including telling her about Lotte. The surrounding society annoys Werther, and his relationship with the envoy is getting worse. The case ends with the envoy complaining about him to the minister, the same, as a delicate person, writes a letter to the young man, in which he reprimands him for excessive touchiness and tries to direct his extravagant ideas in the direction where they will find their true application.

Werther comes to terms with his position for a while, but then a "trouble" occurs that forces him to leave the service and the city. He was on a visit to Count von K., stayed up too long, at which time guests began to arrive. In this town, it was not customary for a man of low class to appear in a noble society. Werther did not immediately realize what was happening, besides, when he saw the familiar girl B., he got into a conversation with her, and only when everyone began to look askance at him, and his interlocutor could hardly keep up the conversation, the young man hurriedly left. The next day, gossip spread throughout the city that Count von K. kicked Werther out of his house. Not wanting to wait to be asked to leave the service, the young man submits his resignation and leaves.

First, Werther goes to his native places and indulges in sweet childhood memories, then he accepts the prince's invitation and goes to his domain, but here he feels out of place. Finally, unable to bear the separation any longer, he returns to the city where Charlotte lives. During this time, she became Albert's wife. Young people are happy. The appearance of Werther brings discord into their family life. Lotta sympathizes with the young man in love, but she is unable to see his torment. Werther, on the other hand, rushes about, he often dreams of falling asleep and never waking up again, or he wants to commit a sin, and then atone for it.

One day, while walking around the outskirts of the town, Werther meets a crazy Heinrich, who is picking a bouquet of flowers for his beloved. Later, he learns that Heinrich was a scribe for Lotta's father, fell in love with a girl, and love drove him crazy. Werther feels that the image of Lotta haunts him and he does not have enough strength to end the suffering. This is where the young man's letters end, and we will learn about his future fate from the publisher.

Love for Lotte makes Werther unbearable for others. On the other hand, the decision to leave the world gradually strengthens in the soul of a young man, because he is not able to simply leave his beloved. One day, he finds Lotta sorting out gifts for her relatives on the eve of Christmas. She turns to him with a request to come to them next time not earlier than Christmas Eve. For Werther, this means that he is deprived of the last joy in life. Nevertheless, the next day he nevertheless goes to Charlotte, together they read an excerpt from Werther's translation of Ossian's songs. In a fit of vague feelings, the young man loses control of himself and approaches Lotte, for which she asks him to leave her.

Returning home, Werther puts his affairs in order, writes a farewell letter to his beloved, sends a servant with a note to Albert for pistols. Exactly at midnight, a shot is heard in Werther's room. In the morning, the servant finds a young man, still breathing, on the floor, the doctor comes, but it's too late. Albert and Lotta are having a hard time with Werther's death. They bury him not far from the city, in the place that he chose for himself.

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Foreword

A great number of literary scholars and translators encroach on our attention and time, defining as their cultural task the discovery of as many "lost" names and unknown works as possible. Meanwhile, "culture is selection," as Hoffmannsthal's capacious formula says. Even the ancients noticed that "art is long, but life is short." And how insulting it is to live your short century without visiting the heights of the human spirit. Besides, there are so few peaks. At Akhmatova, contemporaries say, inseparable books-masterpieces fit on one shelf. Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Goethe... Only the Russian nineteenth century was able to double this mandatory minimum for any educated person, adding Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov to the list.

All these authors, our teachers, sweeteners, and often tormentors, are similar in one thing: they left concepts-images-types that firmly and forever entered our consciousness. Became a household name. Words like "Odyssey", "Beatrice", "Don Quixote", "Lady Macbeth" replace long descriptions for us. And they are universally accepted as a code accessible to all mankind. "Russian Hamlet" was nicknamed the most unfortunate of the autocrats of Russia, Paul. And “Russian Faust” is, of course, Ivan Karamazov (which, in turn, has become – the sublimation of an image-type! – an easily wedged cliché). And recently, "Russian Mephistopheles" appeared. This is how the Swede Junggren called his book translated in our country about Emil Medtner, the famous goethean culinary urologist of the early 20th century.

In this sense, Goethe, one might say, set a kind of record: for a long time, and many - from Spengler and Toynbee to Berdyaev and Vyacheslav Ivanov - call "Faustian" no less than the entire Western European civilization as a whole. However, during his lifetime, Goethe was above all the celebrated author of The Sorrows of Young Werther. Thus, two of his most famous books are collected under this cover. If we add to them his selected lyrics and two novels, then this, in turn, will constitute that “minimum of Goethe”, without which the inquisitive reader cannot do without. Goethe’s novel “Elective Affinity” was generally considered by our symbolist poet Vyacheslav Ivanov to be the best experience of this genre in world literature (the opinion is controversial, but also significant), and Thomas Mann singled out it as “the most daring and profound novel about adultery created by the moral culture of the West” ). And Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister" gave rise to a whole specific genre of "educational novel", which has been known since then as a purely German feature. Indeed, the tradition of the German-language educational novel stretches from Keller's Green Heinrich and Stifter's Indian Summer through Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain and Robert Musil's Man Without Qualities to modern modifications of Günter Grass and Martin Walser, and this amounts to the main range of the aforementioned prose. Goethe generally gave birth to a lot of things in German literature. Goethe's blood flows in her veins - to paraphrase Nabokov's maxim about Pushkin's blood in Russian literature. The roles of Goethe and Pushkin are similar in this sense. Fathers-progenitors of mythological scope and strength, who left behind a mighty galaxy of heirs-geniuses with their extensive and branched offspring.

Goethe discovered his phenomenal power very early. He was born on August 28, 1749 in Frankfurt am Main into a wealthy patrician family. His ancestral home (now, of course, a museum) looks like a proud fortress that scattered the surrounding houses in the old part of the city. His father wished for him a good career in the civil service and sent him to study law at reputable universities - first in Leipzig, then in Strasbourg. In Leipzig, his classmate was our Radishchev. In Strasbourg, he became close friends with Lenz and Klinger, writers, "stormy geniuses", whom fate prepared to end their days also in Russia. If in Leipzig Goethe only wrote poetry, then in Strasbourg he was seriously infected by his friends with a literary fever. Together they made up a whole direction, named after the title of one of Klinger's plays, Sturm und Drang.

It was a turning point in European literature. The bastions of classicism, which seemed so unshakable for many decades, classicism with its strict architectonics of known unities (place, time, action), with its rigorous inventory of styles, with its bulging moralizing and obsessive didactics in the spirit of Kant's categorical imperative - all this suddenly collapsed under the onslaught of new trends. Rousseau became their forerunner with his cry “Back to nature!”. Along with the intellect with its duties, a heart with its uncalculated impulses was discovered in a person. In the depths of the literary pantry, under the layer of classicists, young writers, prompted by Rousseau, discovered the giant Shakespeare. They opened it and gasped at its "natural" power. "Shakespeare! Nature!" – young Goethe choked with delight in one of his first journal articles. Against the background of Shakespeare, their vaunted Enlightenment seemed so ugly one-sided to the stormy geniuses.

Shakespeare's chronicles inspired Goethe to search for a plot from German history. The drama from chivalrous times "Götz von Werlichengen" made the name of the young Goethe unusually popular in Germany. For a long time already, probably since the time of Hans Sachs and, perhaps, Grimmelshausen, the German Piites did not know such wide recognition, such glory. And then Goethe's poems began to appear in magazines and almanacs, which the young ladies rushed to rewrite in their albums.

So in Wetzlar, where the twenty-three-year-old Goethe arrived - at the patronage and insistence of his father - to serve in the imperial court, he appeared like an unexpected star. It was a small, provincial, burgher-style cozy town a hundred miles north of Frankfurt, striking only with its disproportionately huge cathedral. This town has remained to this day. But now, Amtman Buff's house has been added as a landmark to the cathedral and the former imperial courthouse. However, Goethe looked into the courthouse only once - a freshly baked lawyer immediately realized that he would suffocate from boredom in a pile of stationery. More than a century will pass before another young lawyer, Kafka, sees an attractive art object in such a bureaucratic monster with his "trimmed eyes" and creates his own "Castle". The ardent big man Goethe found a magnet more attractive - the young charming daughter of Amtman Lotta. So, bypassing the courthouse, the unlucky official, but the famous poet, frequented Buff's house. Now, in an endless suite of tiny rooms on three floors of this Gothic house, of course, there is also a museum - “Goethe and his era”.

Goethe's blood boiled easily even in old age, but here he was young, full of unspent energy, spoiled by universal success. It seemed that the provincial Lotta would be easily conquered, like her predecessor Frederica Brion, who had just left Goethe in mutual tears in Strasbourg. But an accident happened. Lotta was engaged. Her chosen one, a certain Kestner, who diligently made a career in the same judicial department, was a positive person, but also quite ordinary. "Honest mediocrity" - as Thomas Mann described it. Not like the brilliant rival bon vivant, who suddenly fell on his poor head. After hesitating, the sober girl Lotta preferred, however, a titmouse in her hands. After staying only a few months in Wetzlar, Goethe was forced to retire - in desperate feelings, thinking about suicide. Several times he even poked himself in the chest with a dagger, but, apparently, not too stubbornly, more out of artistic interest.

Werther, a young man from a poor family, educated, prone to painting and poetry, settles in a small town to be alone. He enjoys nature, communicates with ordinary people, reads his beloved Homer, draws. At a country youth ball, he meets Charlotte S. and falls in love with her without memory. Lotta, this is the name of the girl close acquaintances, is the eldest daughter of the princely amtman, in total there are nine children in their family. Their mother died, and Charlotte, despite her youth, managed to replace her with her brothers and sisters. She is not only outwardly attractive, but also has self-worth of judgments. Already on the first day of meeting Werther and Lotta, a coincidence of tastes is revealed, they easily understand each other.

From that time on, the young man spends most of his time every day at the amtman's house, which is an hour's walk from the city. Together with Lotta, he visits a sick pastor, travels to take care of a sick lady in the city. Every minute spent near her gives Werther pleasure. But the young man's love is doomed to suffering from the very beginning, because Lotta has a fiancé, Albert, who went to get a solid position.

Albert arrives, and although he treats Werther kindly and delicately hides the manifestations of his feelings for Lotta, the young man in love is jealous of him. Albert is restrained, reasonable, he considers Werther an outstanding person and forgives him for his restless disposition. For Werther, the presence of a third person is difficult when meeting with Charlotte, he falls either into unrestrained fun, or into gloomy moods.

Once, in order to get a little distraction, Werther is going on horseback to the mountains and asks Albert to lend him pistols on the road. Albert agrees, but warns that they are not charged. Werther takes one pistol and puts it to his forehead. This harmless joke turns into a serious dispute between young people about man, his passions and reason. Werther tells a story about a girl who was abandoned by her lover and threw herself into the river, because without him life lost all meaning for her. Albert considers this act "stupid", he condemns a person who, carried away by passions, loses the ability to reason. Werther, on the other hand, is disgusted by excessive rationality.

For his birthday, Werther receives a bundle from Albert: it contains a bow from Lotta's dress, in which he saw her for the first time. The young man suffers, he understands that he needs to do business, leave, but all the time he puts off the moment of parting. On the eve of departure, he comes to Lotte. They go to their favorite gazebo in the garden. Werther does not say anything about the upcoming separation, but the girl, as if anticipating it, starts talking about death and what will follow after it. She remembers her mother, the last minutes before parting with her. Werther, excited by her story, nevertheless finds the strength to leave Lotta.

Werther meets the girl B., who remotely reminds him of the incomparable Charlotte. With her, he often talks about his former life, including telling her about Lotte. The surrounding society annoys Werther, and his relationship with the envoy is getting worse. The case ends with the envoy complaining about him to the minister, who, like a delicate person, writes a letter to the young man in which he reprimands him for excessive offense and is trying to direct his crazy rabble ideas in the direction where they will find the right application for themselves.

Werther reconciles with his position for a while, but then an “unpleasantness” occurs, which makes him leave the service and the city. He was on a visit to Count von K., sat up, at that time guests began to arrive. In this town, it was not customary for a man of low class to appear in a noble society. Werther did not immediately realize what was happening, besides, when he saw the familiar girl B., he talked to her, and only when everyone began to look askance at him, and his companion could hardly to keep up the conversation, the young man hurriedly left. The next day, gossip spread throughout the city that Count von K. kicked Werther out of his house. Not wanting to wait to be asked to leave the service, the young man submits his resignation and leaves.

First, Werther goes to his native places and indulges in sweet childhood memories, then he accepts the prince's invitation and goes to his domain, but here he feels out of place. Finally, unable to endure the separation any longer, he returns to the city where Charlotte lives. During this time, she became Albert's wife. Young people are happy. The appearance of Werther brings discord into their family life. Lotta sympathizes with the young man in love, but she is unable to see his torment. Werther rushes about, he often dreams of falling asleep and no longer waking up, or he wants to commit a sin, and then atone for him.

One day, while walking around the outskirts of the town, Werther meets Heinrich, who has gone crazy, picking a bouquet of flowers for his beloved. Later, he learns that Heinrich was a scribe for Lotta's father, fell in love with a girl, and love drove him crazy. Werther feels that the image of Lotta haunts him and he does not have enough strength to put an end to suffering. On this, the letters of the young man break off, and we will learn about his further fate from the publisher.

Love for Lotte makes Werther incomparable to those around him. On the other hand, the decision to leave the world is gradually becoming stronger in the soul of a young person, because he cannot simply leave his beloved. One day, he finds Lotta, re-b-ra-ing gifts to her relatives on the eve of Christmas. She turns to him with a request to come to them next time not earlier than Christmas Eve. For Werther, this means that he is being deprived of the last joy in life. Nevertheless, the next day, he nevertheless goes to Charlotte, together they read an excerpt from Werther's translation of Ossian's songs. In a fit of vague feelings, the young man loses control of himself and approaches Lotte, for which she asks him to leave her.

A sentimental novel in epistolary form was written in 1774. The work was the second literary success of the great German writer. The first success came to Goethe after the drama Goetz von Berlichingen. The first edition of the novel becomes an instant bestseller. A revised edition appeared in the late 1780s.

To some extent, The Suffering of Young Werther can be called an autobiographical novel: the writer spoke about his love for Charlotte Buff, whom he met in 1772. However, Werther's lover was not based on Charlotte Buff, but on Maximilian von Laroche, one of the writer's acquaintances. The tragic ending of the novel was inspired by Goethe's death of his friend, who was in love with a married woman.

Syndrome or Werther effect in psychology is called a wave of suicides committed for imitative purposes. A suicide described in popular literature, cinema or widely covered in the media can provoke a wave of suicides. For the first time this phenomenon was recorded after the release of Goethe's novel. The book was read in many European countries, after which some young people, imitating the hero of the novel, committed suicide. In many countries, the authorities were forced to ban the distribution of the book.

The term "Werther effect" appeared only in the mid-1970s thanks to the American sociologist David Philipps, who was studying the phenomenon. As in Goethe's novel, those most affected are those who were in the same age group as the one whose "feat" was chosen to be emulated, that is, if the first suicide was an elderly person, his "followers" will also be elderly people. The method of suicide will also in most cases be copied.

A young man named Werther, who comes from a poor family, wants to be alone and moves to a small town. Werther has a penchant for poetry and painting. He enjoys reading Homer, talking to the people of the city and drawing. Once, at a youth ball, Werther met Charlotte (Lotta) S., the daughter of a princely amtman. Lotta, being the eldest, replaced her dead mother for her brothers and sisters. The girl had to grow up too soon. That is why it is distinguished not only by attractiveness, but also by independence of judgment. Werther falls in love with Lotta on the very first day they met. Young people have similar tastes and characters. From now on, Werther tries to spend every free minute near an unusual girl.

Unfortunately, the love of a sentimental young man is doomed to numerous sufferings. Charlotte already has a fiance - Albert, who briefly left the city to get a job. Returning, Albert learns that he has a rival. However, Lotta's fiancé turns out to be more reasonable than her admirer. He is not jealous of his bride for a new admirer, finding it quite natural that it is simply impossible not to fall in love with such a beautiful and smart girl as Charlotte. Werther begins bouts of jealousy and despair. Albert is trying in every possible way to calm the opponent, reminding him that every act of a person must be reasonable, even if madness is dictated by passion.

On his birthday, Werther receives a gift from her fiancé Lotta. Albert sent him a bow from his bride's dress, in which Werther first saw her. The young man takes this as a hint that it is high time for him to leave the girl alone, and then goes to say goodbye to her. Werther again moves to another city, where he gets a job as an official with the envoy. The main character does not like life in a new place. Class prejudices are too strong in this city.

Seal of Bad Luck
Werther is constantly reminded of his ignoble origin, and the boss turns out to be overly picky. However, soon the young man has new friends - Count von K. and the girl B., who is very similar to Charlotte. Werther talks a lot with his new girlfriend, tells her about his love for Lotte. But soon the young man had to leave this city as well.

Werther goes home, believing that it will be easier for him there. Not finding peace here either, he goes to the city where his beloved lives. Lotta and Albert by that time had already managed to get married. Family happiness ends after the return of Werther. The couple start arguing. Charlotte sympathizes with the young man, but cannot help him in any way. Werther increasingly begins to think about death. He does not want to live away from Lotta and at the same time cannot be near her. In the end, Werther writes a farewell letter, and then commits suicide by shooting himself in his room. Charlotte and Albert are having a hard time with the loss.

Character characteristics

The protagonist of the novel is quite independent and independent in order to get a decent education, despite his low origin. He very easily finds a common language with people and a place in society. However, the young man definitely lacks common sense. Moreover, in one of his conversations with Albert, Werther argues that an excess of common sense is not needed at all.

All his life, the main character, being a dreamer and romantic, was in search of an ideal that he found in Lotte. As it turned out, the ideal already belongs to someone. Werther does not want to put up with this. He prefers to retire. With many rare virtues, Charlotte was not perfect. It was made ideal by Werther himself, who needed the existence of a supernatural being.

Incomparable Charlotte

It is no coincidence that the author notes that Werther and Lotta are similar in their tastes and characters. However, there is one fundamental difference. Unlike Werther, Charlotte is less impulsive and more reserved. The girl's mind dominates her feelings. Lotta is engaged to Albert, and no passion can make the bride forget her promise to the groom.

Charlotte took on the role of mother of the family early, despite the fact that she did not yet have her own children. Responsibility for someone else's life made the girl more mature. Lotta knows in advance that she will have to answer for every act. She perceives Werther, rather, as a child, one of her brothers. Even if there had been no Albert in Charlotte's life, she would hardly have accepted the courtship of her ardent admirer. In a future life partner, Lotta is looking for stability, not boundless passion.

The ideal Charlotte found for herself an equally ideal spouse: both belong to the upper strata of society, and both are distinguished by composure and restraint. Albert's prudence does not allow him to fall into despair when meeting with a potential rival. He probably does not consider Werther a competitor. Albert is sure that his smart and prudent, like himself, the bride will never exchange her fiancé for a crazy man who can fall in love so easily and do crazy things.

Despite everything, Albert is not alien to sympathy and pity. He does not rudely try to remove Werther from his bride, hoping that the unfortunate rival, sooner or later, will change his mind himself. The bow sent to Werther for his birthday becomes a hint that it's time to stop dreaming and take life for what it is.

Composition of the novel

Goethe chose one of the most popular literary genres of the 18th century. The work was divided into 2 parts: the letters of the protagonist (the main part) and additions to these letters, which have the heading "From the publisher to the reader" (thanks to the additions, readers become aware of the death of Werther). In the letters, the protagonist turns to his friend Wilhelm. The young man seeks to tell not about the events of his life, about the feelings associated with them.

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"The Suffering of Young Werther"

Summary

Werther comes to terms with his position for a while, but then a "trouble" occurs that forces him to leave the service and the city. He was on a visit to Count von K., stayed up too long, at which time guests began to arrive. In this town, it was not customary for a man of low class to appear in a noble society. Werther did not immediately realize what was happening, besides, when he saw the familiar girl B., he started talking to her, and only when everyone began to look askance at him, and his interlocutor could hardly keep up the conversation, the young man hurriedly left. The next day, gossip spread throughout the city that Count von K. kicked Werther out of his house. Not wanting to wait to be asked to leave the service, the young man submits his resignation and leaves.

Goethe chooses precisely this, characteristic of the literature of the 18th century. genre for your work. The action takes place at the end of the XVIII century in one of the towns in Germany. The novel has two parts - Werther's letters and additions to them with the title "From the Publisher to the Reader."

Having retired in a small town, a young man educated from a poor family, communicating with ordinary people, enjoys nature, draws, reads his beloved Homer. At a youth ball outside the city, he meets Charlotte, who replaced her dead mother for her brothers and sisters. Werther and Lotta found a coincidence of tastes and mutual understanding.

Werther spends most of his time with Lotta, participating in joint charity, feeling the pleasure of communicating with her and suffering from the fact that Lotta already has a fiancé, Albert. He arrives in the town, delicate and friendly, but Werther is hard on the presence of Albert on dates.

Going on horseback into the mountains, Werther borrowed pistols from Albert and jokingly puts one of them to his forehead, which caused a serious dispute about the man, his mind and passions. Albert gives Werther a bundle with a bow from Lotta's dress for his birthday, this caused a surge of suffering in the young man's soul and he decides to leave. On the eve of his departure, he meets Lotta in his favorite gazebo, they talk, anticipating separation, Lotta remembers her mother, but Werther finds the strength to part with Lotta.

The young man leaves, becomes an official in another city under the envoy, stupid, picky and pedantic. The town turned out to be difficult, with strong class prejudices, where they constantly point to the origin. Werther meets a certain girl who is somewhat reminiscent of Charlotte and spends time with her, at the same time, his relationship with the messenger is getting worse. Werther reconciles for a while with his position, but after the "trouble" that happened, he had to leave both the service and the city. He happened to be present in a noble society, which was unacceptable for a man of low class. This led to the need for resignation and departure.

Werther first goes to his native place, but still returns to the city where Charlotte lives. She married Albert, but the appearance of Werther brings discord into her family life. Love for Lotta made him intolerable to those around him. Werther also lost his composure. Gradually, his decision to leave this world becomes stronger. Once he met Lotta on the eve of Christmas, but she asks to come to them not earlier than Christmas Eve next time. Werther perceives this as depriving him of his last joy in life, but nevertheless he goes the next day to Charlotte. The young man loses control - in a fit of feelings he approached Lotte, but she asks her to leave.

Werther, having returned home, put his affairs in order, writes a farewell letter to his beloved. The shot in Werther's room rang out exactly at midnight, the servant found him on the floor in the morning, still breathing, but when the doctor came, it was already too late. Lotta and Albert take Werther's death hard. He was buried near the city.

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