Goethe's life

Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749- 1832) was the most important German and European writer and poet from the middle of18th century to the beginning of19th century. His life spanned two centuries, which coincided with the great social turmoil and changes in Europe. The gradual disintegration of the feudal system and the continuous rise of revolutionary forces prompted Goethe to constantly accept the influence of advanced ideological trends, thus deepening his understanding of society and creating the best contemporary works.

Goethe 1749 was born in a wealthy citizen's family in Frankfurt Town on August 28th. He studied law at Leipzig University and Strasbourg University and worked as a lawyer for a short time. But his main interest is literary creation. 1775- 1786 in order to improve the real society, he applied to be an official in the principality of Weimar, but there was no result. From June 65438 to June 0786, he went to Italy to devote himself to natural science, engaged in painting and literary creation. 1788 After returning to Weimar, he served as theater director.

Goethe was the main leader of German hurricanes and sprints. His works are full of the rebellious spirit of soaring movement, and he has made great achievements in poetry, drama and prose. His major works include the drama Gotz von Beresingen, the novella young werther, the unfinished poetic drama Prometheus and the prototype of the poetic drama Faust, and he also wrote many lyrics and poems.

Gertz von bell Hinggan is the first German realistic historical drama. Goetz was originally a German Charise Carnes in16th century. He once took part in the peasant uprising and later betrayed the peasants. As a knight and a representative of the dying class, Gotz rose up against the existing system, which was a tragic confrontation between the knight class and the emperor and feudal lords. But under Goethe's pen, Goethe was written as a hero who opposed feudal tyranny and strived for freedom and unity. He deeply sympathized with the people's sufferings and rebuked those rulers who fought for rights and brought disaster to the country and people, so he was loved by the people. The condemnation of the dark society at that time, the ardent yearning for freedom and unity, and the praise of heroes who resisted by individuals all showed the spirit of sturm und drang. In art, the play adopts the method of Shakespeare's drama creation.

Young werther is an epistolary novel. Victor, the hero, is a young man from a citizen's family. He yearns for a free and equal life and hopes to engage in useful practical work. However, the society around him is full of class prejudice and vulgar habits. Conservative and corrupt officialdom, vulgar and obedient citizens, arrogant aristocrats constantly clashed with the reality around them, and he himself fell into hopeless love and finally embarked on the road of suicide. The conflict between Victor and society is of anti-feudal significance. Through Witt's tragedy, the novel exposes and criticizes many unreasonable realities in German society at that time, and expresses the revolutionary sentiment of the awakened German youth. Therefore, as soon as it was published, it aroused strong repercussions, formed Witte fever, and soon spread to European countries, becoming the first literary work of various countries with great international influence.

Prometheus is a poetic drama adapted from ancient Greek mythology by Goethe. Although the script has not been finished, the fragments handed down have expressed Goethe's strong anti-feudal spirit in his youth. Prometheus in the play denies Zeus' rights, opposes Zeus' arrogance and wants to create a new human being who despises Zeus as much as he does. Victor's lack of tenacity is reflected in this mythical figure.

In the first ten years of Goethe's stay in Weimar, Goethe was busy with affairs and seldom wrote. After arriving in Italy, he successively completed some works that he had started, including Iphigenia in Taliz and Egmont, as well as some chapters in Tasso and Faust.

The play Egmont is based on/kloc-the history of the Dutch people's struggle against Spain in the 6th century. Egmont was a vacillating aristocratic opposition in history, and Goethe wrote him as a hero fighting for national freedom and unity, which was loved by the people. However, he lacked positive action and advocated taking moderate measures, and was finally executed. The play still retains the revolutionary sentiment of the hurricane movement, but the rebellious spirit of the characters has been reduced.

Iphigenia of Doris is based on Greek mythology. The hero Iphigenia is in a foreign country, but he can move the king with perfect character and fraternity, change the barbaric customs there, and establish the principles of humanity and justice.

Goethe's creations in his later years are extremely rich, such as autobiographical works Poetry and Truth, Travels in Italy, novels Affinity and William Meister's Roaming Times, lyric poetry collection and the second volume of Faust, which were completed shortly before his death. These works show Goethe's thought of attaching importance to practice and affirming to work for human happiness, indicating that the positive factors in his thought have increased compared with the previous period.

Although Master William's Roaming Times is not as attractive as Master William's Learning Times, it focuses on the search for an ideal social system, believing that people can only obtain the meaning of collective welfare through active labor, and its thoughts are relatively open and positive. Many of Goethe's lyric poems in his later years shone with the light of materialism and optimism, and shone brilliantly in the German literary world where negative romantic literature prevailed at that time. The completion of the second part of Faust highlights Goethe's new development in thought and art in his later years.

1832 On March 22nd, Goethe passed away. Goethe is the most outstanding representative of German national literature. His works have raised German literature to the advanced level in Europe and made great contributions to the development of European literature.

The novel Young Werther by Goethe, a famous German writer, is a small pearl in the treasure house of world literature, which was once loved by young people of different countries and nationalities. Knowing the reasons for the creation of this novel will make people love this work and its author even more.

Goethe, 24, went to Vizla on business. On the way to a dance, he met a girl named Charlotte by chance and fell in love at first sight. Charlotte, the fiancee of Goethe's friend costner, was 15 years old, while costner was 3 1 year old. Goethe was so infatuated with Charlotte that he desperately declared his love to her. This made Charlotte panic. She told her fiance Goethe's confession, and Kesternan didn't care. Goethe was shocked to learn of this situation. For himself and Charlotte, he immediately fled back to Frankfurt and broke off this inappropriate relationship. A few months later, another friend of his, Yercharin, committed suicide because he fell in love with someone else's wife and couldn't stand the accusation of public opinion. Goethe was deeply moved when he learned that. He wrote the novel Young Werther based on Yercharin. This novel made him famous for a while.

Faust is Goethe's masterpiece. It took him 60 years to write this masterpiece. The first part of Faust was completed in 1808 when the French army invaded, and the second part was completed in 183 1 August 3, 2008, at the age of 83. This immortal poetic drama. Taking German folklore as the theme and German and European society since the Renaissance as the background, this paper writes that a senior intellectual of the emerging bourgeoisie is dissatisfied with reality and tries his best to explore the meaning of life and the ideal life path. It is a poetic drama that perfectly combines realism and romanticism.

Goethe was born on August 28th, 749, and died on March 22nd, 832. His great contribution to the treasure house of world literature made him a world cultural celebrity. Every year, on his birthday, the literary and art circles of various countries will hold commemorative activities.

Johann wolfgang von goethe (August 28th1749–March 22nd 1832) was a German scholar. Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, humanism, science and painting. His most immortal works are two dramatic poems Faust, which are considered as one of the pinnacles of world literature. Goethe's other famous literary works include a large number of his poems, the initiation novel William Meister's apprentice, the epistolary novel young werther and the semi-autobiographical novel Choosing a Mate and Marriage.

Goethe's famous sayings, aphorisms, aphorisms, quotations

No one is stupid, but if you don't use your head, you will find that you are stupid!

Who is the happiest person? Is a person who can feel the advantages of others and take the happiness of others as his own.

The greatest happiness is that our shortcomings are corrected and our mistakes are made up.

He who can connect the end and the beginning of life is the happiest person.

When a fool finds life difficult, a wise man looks easy; And when fools find it easy, sages find it difficult.

Isn't life just about making short things permanent? To achieve this step, we must know how to cherish this short and permanent.

Although everyone wants a lot, they need very little. Because life is short, people's fate is limited.

He who has never eaten bread with tears is a man who doesn't know the taste of life.

Who is the dance academy, who will accomplish nothing; He who can't dominate himself is always a slave.

Life is still freedom, you have to fight for it every day to enjoy it.

Only such a person deserves life and freedom, if he struggles for it every day.

As long as a person claims to be free, he will feel limited. You will feel free if you dare to claim that you are limited.

It is a nature to tell others about yourself; Therefore, it is an education to take seriously what others tell you about yourself.

Really like-minded people can't quarrel for long; They will always make up.

As long as you tell me what kind of people you are dealing with, I can know who you are.

Friendship can only be produced and maintained in practice.

He who knows the danger but doesn't say it is the enemy.

People should love truth and accept it as soon as they see it.

Error is to truth what sleep is to sobriety. When a person wakes up from his mistakes, he will move towards the truth with new strength.

Struggle is a school to master skills, and frustration is a bridge to truth.

The love of truth is embodied in knowing how to discover and cherish the benefits of everything.

We must always tell the truth over and over again, because mistakes are also repeatedly publicized, and they are not individual people but a large number of people.

The key is to have a heart that loves truth. Whenever you meet the truth, you will absorb it.

It is a well-deserved credit to find out the scattered truths obtained by predecessors and further develop them.

Smart young people think that it is a great mistake to admit the truth that others have already admitted and lose originality.

Truth is a torch, and it is a great torch, so it is difficult for us to open our eyes when we try to walk through it for fear of being burned by it.

It is much easier to find mistakes than truth; Because fallacies can be overcome in the light; The truth is hidden in the depths, and not everyone can find it.

Whoever accepts pure experience and acts according to it has enough truth.

The history of knowledge is like a great polyphonic song, and the voices of all ethnic groups come and go.

There are many beautiful and excellent things in the world, but they are all independent.

Although we can grow up under the protection of our parents and relatives, we can rely on our brothers and friends, and we can get happiness by making friends, in any case, in the final analysis, human beings still have to rely on themselves.

How magnificent, vast and distant my legacy is! Time is my property and my field is time.

Save time, and I may get the most precious diamond.

What cannot be done today will not be done tomorrow. You can't waste a day. You must make up your mind to seize the possible and hold on tight. If you make up your mind, you won't let them escape. You must carry it out.

There are sixty minutes in an hour, and a day is more than one thousand minutes. Understand this truth, and you will know how much people can contribute.

Whoever is a dance academy will never achieve anything, and whoever cannot dominate himself will always be a slave.

Make good use of time! What do you want to know? Don't go too far.

As long as we can make good use of time, we will never worry about lack of time.

If you want to do something great, you must start when you are young.

Career is the most important, reputation is empty talk.

Wherever a person goes, no matter what career he is engaged in, he will eventually return to the path indicated by nature.

Career is everything, and fame is just an empty voice.

Labor can rid us of three evils: loneliness, bad habits and poverty.

If you want to rejoice in your meaning, you must give meaning to the world.

Anyone who strives for self-improvement will eventually succeed.

One can't ride two horses. If you ride this, you will lose that. Smart people will put aside all distractions and concentrate on a subject and learn it well.

Fantasy is the wings of a poet, and hypothesis is the ladder of science.

As far as science is concerned, it is a well-deserved contribution to find out the sporadic truths obtained by predecessors and further develop them.

Fantasy is a poet's wing, and hypothesis is a scientist's ladder.

There is a long time between today and tomorrow; Learn to do things quickly while you are still full of energy.

A person depends not only on what he is born with, but also on what he gets from his study to make himself.

Experienced people read books with two eyes, one eye sees the words on the paper, and the other eye sees the back of the paper.

An outstanding philosopher said that architecture solidified music, and many people shook their heads at his statement, which is inevitable; We think there is nothing better than this ingenious idea, in other words, calling architecture silent music.

People who think with their brains will only feel in the end.

When a great idea comes to this world as a gospel, it will be an offense to the public bound by stereotypes, but it will be a stupid thing to those who read a lot but have little knowledge.

It is not how correct, powerful or beautiful the language itself is, but the ideological power it embodies.

Our life is like a trip. Thought is the guide. Without a guide, everything will stop. Goals will be lost and strength will be wiped out.

Heresy is the poem of life, so it is harmless for a poet to have heresy.

We are more likely to admit mistakes, shortcomings and deficiencies in behavior than in thought.

Our life is like execution, and our thoughts are the guide; Without a guide, everything will stop. Goals will be lost and strength will be wiped out.

As far as women's other talents are concerned, I often find that once women get married, their talents are finished.

What is the hardest job in the world? Thought. Everything worth thinking about is something that people have never thought about; All we have to do is rethink it.

My life is basically hard work. I can say that I have lived for 75 years, and I haven't lived really comfortably for a month. It's like a stone going up a mountain. The stone keeps rolling down and pushing up.

This artist has a dual relationship with nature. He is both the master and the slave of nature. He is a slave to nature, because he must work with the materials in the world to make people understand. At the same time, he is the master of nature, because he makes this earthly material obey his higher will and serve it.

A person with real talent and practical learning feels the highest happiness in the process of work.

No manners can make people see the lack of education at a glance. The correct education lies in making people's external courtesy and noble education show at the same time.

Talent can be cultivated in solitude, and character is best formed in the stormy waves of the world.

Modesty is not a virtue; Being healthy is a virtue, and it is also a virtue to admit that what is lower than us is higher than us.

Generosity, especially modesty, will win people's favor.

Many ideas come from a certain cultural accomplishment, just like buds grow on green branches.

A person should have good manners to highlight his unique nature. Everyone likes to get ahead, but this should not cause others' disgust.

A person's courtesy is a mirror that reflects his portrait.

Accepting suggestions is to improve one's ability.

Devotion is not an end, but a means, and it is a means to achieve the highest cultivation through the purest peace of mind.

There is an inner courtesy. It is love that has changed its form. Therefore, an external courtesy is the most appropriate.

The final conclusion of wisdom is that life or freedom must be fought for every day so that you can enjoy it.

The so-called true wisdom has been thought for thousands of times; However, if we want to make them truly our own, we must think twice before they take root in my personal experience.

Wisdom can only be found in truth.

What is the best government? Is to guide us to manage our own government.

Man can't live alone, he needs society.

Anyone who goes to a dance academy will accomplish nothing; Whoever can't dominate himself will always be a slave.

Smart people and fools are harmless, but the most dangerous thing is that they are both smart and stupid.

It is terrible that an outstanding person is appreciated by a group of fools.

If a wise man does a stupid thing, it is not a trivial matter.

Fools always ask questions that wise men have answered thousands of years ago.

The body at least has a great influence on creativity. There was a time when Germans often imagined genius as a short and thin camel. But I'd rather see a powerful genius.

Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the desire to achieve perfection is the measure of human beings.

I should not attribute all my works to my own wisdom, but to thousands of things and people outside me who provide me with materials.

Experienced people read books with two eyes, one eye sees the words on the paper, and the other eye sees the back of the paper.

Reading a good book is talking to many noble people.

Anyone who goes to a dance academy will accomplish nothing; Whoever does not dominate himself will always be a slave.

It is only a moment that determines a person's life and the whole destiny.

The first and last thing a genius needs is the love of truth.

If it is a rose, it will bloom forever.

We should all learn from our predecessors and peers. Even the greatest genius will never achieve anything if he wants to deal with everything with his unique inner nature.

I've basically worked hard all my life. I can say that I have lived for 75 years, and I have not lived comfortably for a month. It's like pushing a stone up a mountain, and the stone keeps rolling down and pushing it up.

A person with real talent and practical learning feels the highest happiness in the process of work.

My manor is so beautiful, so vast, so broad, time is my property, and my field is time.

People who make good use of time will always find plenty of time.

We always have to tell the truth over and over again, because mistakes are also repeatedly publicized, and not individual people but a large number of people.

People often mix truth and error to teach people, but they insist on mistakes.

The key is to have a heart that loves truth. Whenever you meet the truth, you will absorb it.

Whoever wants a dance academy will accomplish nothing, and whoever cannot dominate himself will always be a slave.

We can't all serve our motherland in the same way. Everyone should do his best according to his own endowment.

If you want to love your own value, you have to create value for the world.

There is a long time between today and tomorrow; Learn to do things quickly while you are still full of energy.