ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “Faust” is the greatest expression of what literary movement?
A
Nationalism
B
Expressionism
C
Rationalism
D
Romanticism
E
“Sturm und Drang”
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Sturm und Drang, (German: “Storm and Stress”), German literary movement of the late 18th century that exalted nature, feeling, and human individualism and sought to overthrow the Enlightenment cult of Rationalism.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sturm und Drang (“Storm and Stress”) was the name of a German literary movement that reached its apex in the 1770s-just as Goethe was writing The Sorrows of Young Werther.

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