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European and classical literature · Sixth form / stretch

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Letters give intense feeling a persuasive personal voice while limiting access to other people’s experiences. Attend to what the writer observes and what he projects onto a situation, and compare the effect of intimate address with the distance introduced by the work’s framing.

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