"The Sandman and The Golden Pot" and "The Sorrows of Young Werther"

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The paper analyzes the three major characters in the stories by Goethe and E.T.A Hoffman. The writer describes how these characters reflect romantic love-madness. The writer further explains that by being very young and impressionable, the behaviors of madness seem to stem from their actions and behaviors toward women. The writer further analyzes how, in the cases of Nathaniel, Anselmus, and Werther, they reflect a Germanic "Sturm and Drang" style of writing that blends magic and dreams to distort any kind of sensible reality and order in male/female relationships.

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"This literary character study will examine the romantic delusions and madness that are within the three stories: "The Sandman" and "The Golden Pot" by E.T.A. Hoffman and "The Sorrows of Young Werther" by Goethe. In this manner, one can realize how obsession and illogical love turns to madness in the case of Goethe's Werther, as well as the two other major characters Nathaniel and Anselmus in the literary works of E.T.A. Hoffman. The precepts of Goethe's romantic love-madness can be seen within the character Werther, and it is accomplished through his extra-marital involvement with an experienced woman."

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