To most people, analyzing The Sorrows of Young Werther is a simple task. Relying on the worldview of a pragmatic, technology-driven, and self-assured society, they look at Werther and see a young, romantic who, because of personal weakness, developed an obsession with a woman probably because he knew he could not have her. Gradually, as he realized the folly of his attraction, his fanciful emotions turned into a psychosis and a desire to hurt those …showed first 75 words of 4165 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4165 total…of these virtues or pretenses can ever remove man from a fate tied ultimately to his emotions. The only real defense anyone has is strength and hope until a real, empathic love can finally relieve the burden of their suffering. The necessity of empathic love is Goetheís greatest lesson for man in The Sorrows of Young Werther. "Without doubt, the only thing that makes Manís life on earth essential and necessary is love" (64).