jueves, 24 de agosto de 2017

The sorrows of young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Goethe

FIRST PART

Werther is a young man who has a liking for nature, animals, friendly and simple people, for various reasons he had to travel to a region called Wahlheim to arrange some matters of his mother, he stayed some time there, he met many people,  Werther often writes to his friend Wilhelm, and he describes him how are the things in that place, describes the places, people, in addition the young Werther liked to draw, read, and deal with his affairs, often he portrayed the local people and nature of that place. One day he met an Administrator who invited him to a dance, he was accompanied by several people, when they were on the way to the dance a person of the car mentioned that they were going to pick up a beautiful girl, he told Werther that he will not fall in love of her, since she was engaged, he did not take the comment with much importance. Upon meeting the girl Werther was astounded, because she was very beautiful, she was taking care of children, they were her brothers. After the dance Werther began to frequent Lottchen, all of them called Lotte, young Werther looked for any excuse to go home and see her, over time it was customary for Werther to be in Lotte's house, even the children already knew him. She was a lovely woman, who took great care of her siblings, since she had promised her mother on the death bed, many local people who knew Lotte liked her to come and visit them, always she went with Werther, the same one who was filled with love for her, and without realizing he was deeply in love. One day Lotte's boyfriend returned, his name was Albert, a man who was worthy of her, Werther at that moment began to feel sadness, since he could not share the days with Lottte as he did before, but anyway Werther Visiting her, Albert did not care about that. Werther one day when he saw that Albert had some weapons in his house, he borrows one, Albert accedes to the request, some time after Werther cannot stand being far from his beloved Lotte, then he decides to leave that place.

SECOND PART

Werther got a job in an embassy where he met a Count, the same one who treated him very well, also he had some problems with the ambassador since he often made him repeat the writings, so he began to have difficulties, despite the distance Werther was still thinking about Lotte, he could not get her out of his thoughts. Werther did not like the attitude of people of that place, they were selfish and they only thought about themselves, he missed the times where every day was beautiful, now is the opposite. There he met a beautiful girl, but he did not compare with Lotte, he made a great friendship with her, they saw each other very often. One day the count invited him to a meeting, where he met his friend, she behaved a different with him, another day Werther spoke with her, the girl crying did not know what to say about that. Werther is not getting along with the ambassador resigned his position, when his resignation arrived he went to live with a prince, while traveling to his new residence decided to go to the place where he had spent his childhood, that place was no longer the same, it had changed, he was continuing on his way to go to the prince. After a few weeks of staying in the place Werther decides to leave since he has nothing in common with the prince. Werther still thinks about Lotte and decides to return next to her, in spite of knowing that he had married Albert, his love for her was indescribable he could not be far from her. On the way to Lotte's houses, Werther finds an unhappy man was picking flowers, the man tells him they are for his beloved, then the boy's mother arrives, the same one who tells him that the man is crazy, out of unrequited love . Werther is identical with him and thinks his case is similar, loving someone who does not love him. Werther arrived at Lotte's house, she did not seem to displease him, they talked to much, Albert was not happy with him, but he did not want to cause any trouble to Lotte. The young Werther his chest was burning for loving her freely. At times he wanted to tear his chest and let his blood flow from his veins.

THE EDITOR TO THE READER

Young Werther began to frequent Lotte's house, one day he noticed that Albert was not there and asked himself and he was worthy of Lotte's love, and he thought that he loved her more than anyone in the world, he felt distressed and melancholy for not being able to be next to his beloved. One day there was an incident in the village, a murder, Werther went there to find out what had happened, the unfortunate man he had met before was the murderer, he had killed the servant of the woman who loved him thinking they were engaged, Werther interceded for he before the administrator, as he put himself in his place and sometimes these ideas hovered his head about Albert. Near Christmas Werther was more distressed, as he thought he was hurting Lottte by his closeness to her, while she was married to Albert. Werther had made a decision, he will sacrifice himself for her, since he can not live without his love, one day he went to visit her, Albert was not at home, they talked Werther was to say goodbye, one moment he read a few poems, in them their story was reflected, they both cried bitterly, she sensing the fateful end and he could not pronounce the goodbye, at that moment he approaches her lips and kisses her, she runs away and encloses in a room, the young man just says goodbye and goes home, the next day the young man sends his servant to Albert's house to lend him his pistols, Lotte gives them trembling with the authorization of Albert, that night Werther takes the gun and shoot himself in the head, he does not die instantly, he suffers an agony until noon where his heart stops beating and leaves Lotte free to be happy with Albert.

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