SIGNIFICAÇÕES DO SUICÍDIO NA OBRA “OS SOFRIMENTOS DO JOVEM WERTHER”, DE GOETHE

• Autor(a) principal: Piazzoli, Evelin
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Criar Educação
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unesc.net/ojs/index.php/criaredu/article/view/8033

The book The Sorrows of Young Werther, first novel by Goethe, published in Germany in 1774, laid the definitive foundations of romantic and escapist sentimentality. In confessional tone, constant idealizations of love and beloved wife enhance this novel, besides the escapism by suicide, considered the greatest of all romantic getaways, and the one that there is no return. That said, this research aims to verify and eventually answer the question: is it possible to see in the literary work, through encapsulation of the character, the release of carnal life until the apex of suicide as a representation of a process of undoing "self" so characteristic of modernity? Therefore, besides the theories that rule the conception of subjectivity and romantic escapism, it was also discussed the suicide in his psychoanalytic strand in order to probe how the character signaled his intentions during the literary work.