LITERATURE QUESTIONS
RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA
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It is a pathetic drama.
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It is a lamentation.
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Its main theme is heroism.
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Its main theme is redemption.
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It is full of sentimentalism.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The message in The Sorrows of Young Werther deals with unrequited love and mental health. Werther focuses on what he cannot have, and he drives himself mad. He chooses to stay and self-destruct rather than to leave and attempt to find peace and happiness.
Detailed explanation-2: -Self-Absorption of Youth As Goethe depicts it, young adulthood is a dangerous time: the authorities of youth (parents, teachers, elders) become less powerful, while the young adult’s own perceptions begin to seem like the only reliable, true guide in the world.
Detailed explanation-3: -Characteristics. The protagonist in a typical Sturm und Drang stage work, poem, or novel is driven to action-often violent action-not by pursuit of noble means nor by true motives, but by revenge and greed.
Detailed explanation-4: -Werther attains the temperament of a romantic who chooses emotion over reason and believes that what goes on in the heart is more important than what is going on in the head. His extreme passion and impossible emotions lead him to his own self-destruction.