TagJohann Wolfgang von Goethe

A Comparative Analysis of The Last Song and Wilhelm Meister’s Schooldays: How do they depict the process of personal and social growth?

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This article compares Nozawa Hisashi’s The Last Song and Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Schooldays to analyze their characteristics and differences as coming-of-age novels. It examines the protagonists of both works as they grow through a process of wandering, maturation, and arrival, and explores the social images and authors’ worldviews that each work reflects. In...

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How can noble love be the seed of tragedy, and what is the meaning of love in ‘Goethe’s ‘Urfaust’?

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In Book Review

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Love is often perceived as a noble and beautiful emotion, but in Goethe’s Urfaust, love becomes a major factor in the doom and tragedy of the main characters. Goethe uses love as a tool to expose the inherent vulnerability of human beings, to cause moral turmoil and tragedy, but also to offer the possibility of repentance within it. When we think of love, we think of something...

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