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Sometimes I can't understand; How can someone else love and love him too, when I alone love him so sincerely and so fully, when I see and know nothing but him, when I have no existence other than him?
Werther says, "I have so many things, but without him, everything turns into nothing," and in his own way, he associates nothingness with being away from his one and only Lotte. So much so that not even seeing him for a day or even a second drives him crazy.
The book consists entirely of cross-sectional letters written to Werther's close friend Wilhel, who committed suicide, and we, who read these letters as a whole in Werther's voice, witness this painful love, sometimes with sadness and sometimes with fear.
While I will not recommend the book to people who have broken up with their loved ones and are caught up in unrequited love, I would like very emotional people to start this book knowing that their feelings will be turned upside down in many pages. I believe that just as the book caused many suicides at the time, it continues to have this effect today and that in some pages it has the effect of increasing our belief that death is a salvation.
“O my Father in heaven, if I come, will you drive me away?”
Finally, my dear Werther, I have experienced the whole life with you, how a love can kill, how it can fade such a beautiful youth. You have become one of the rare characters whose pain I want to share, welcome...