Victor was published in 1774, and Europe is in the transitional period from feudal system to capitalism. After the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Enlightenment, the emerging civil class has awakened, and the younger generation is more emotional. They are deeply dissatisfied with their political rights and discriminated status in society, and are eager to break down the hierarchy and establish a social order in line with nature and an equal relationship between people. They put forward slogans such as "individual liberation" and "emotional freedom" to oppose feudal bondage and take "all-round and free development of individuals" as their ideal. But before the French Revolution, the feudal aristocracy was still very strong, and the bourgeoisie mostly failed in the contest with it. The situation in Germany is even worse. Facing the dark and decadent social reality, with unattainable ideals, the young and weak bourgeoisie generally breeds pessimism, disappointment and resentment, and for a time, sadness has become a fashion. In this era atmosphere, Witt not only tells the ideal of the young bourgeoisie, but also reveals its contradiction with social reality, and makes the sentimental and cynical hero cry and commit suicide angrily to protest the disillusionment of this ideal. This made a generation of young people at that time see their own shadow in Victor, and fell in love with it like Narcissus in Greek mythology. It should be said that Victor reflects the intensification of social class contradictions in Europe on the eve of the French Revolution, from which we can already hear the shrill wind before the hurricane.