Goethe's first and most famous work of fiction, The Sorrows of Young Werther, beautifully captures the spirit of the birth of Romanticism in Germany. Beauty being essential for Romantics, Kant defined it as “purposeless destination”. Goethe had this same idea when he wrote, in that aesthetic judgment is different from subjective or cognitive judgment. These aesthetic judgments are about experiencing an object as designed for the emotion it can evoke, not for any particular intention. In his drawings and in The Sorrows of Young Werther Goethe tries to venerate nature. His European predecessors who followed the Enlightenment sought to rationalize and look at nature empirically. Goethe and the Romantics rejected this assumption and looked at nature in terms of artistic qualities. To further embrace and connect to nature, Romantics used powerful emotions and intuition to enhance the aesthetics of their environment. Goethe wrote The Sorrows of Young Werther as a semi-autobiographical work. Goethe and Werther draw and admire nature - they are both true romantics. Goethe, like Werther, felt sadness and tragic desperation when he fell in love with an unobtainable woman. In this regard, The Sorrows of Young Werther together with his drawings made in the same period are purifying works that helped Goethe calm his unhealthy feelings. Because it is necessary to analyze an artist's work in the same terms as the time in which it was produced, there are intrinsic connections between the novel and the drawings. Goethe's drawings are invariably linked to the text of the novel since they were produced as he was writing at the same time. His drawing, Bergige Flusslandschaft mit Burgturm und Mühle (1765), translates into mountains...... in the center of the card......es Werther for his knowledge, while he believes it should instead be appreciated for its his emotions. Ataraxia is a Dionysian ideal as it is an emotional state of tranquility and freedom. Werther is happy to acknowledge that he doesn't know where his heart will take him, and in this he doesn't let himself be weighed down by things beyond his control. He demonstrates this by reading Homer and taking time to contemplate the world around him. Goethe's drawings are intrinsically linked to his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther as they were drawn as the book was being written. Both art forms capture and appeal to the strong emotional senses of Romantics. Many of the art forms run parallel to each other, which further illuminates each form individually, giving a greater sense of Goethe's fascination with the aesthetic movement he helped establish in which emotions must be indomitable and fully embraced..
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