Some ideas in the play recall Goethe's novella Elective Affinities: Stoppard's characters " Thomasina " and " Septimus " have parallels in Goethe's " Ottalie " and " Eduard ", and the historical section of the play is set in 1809, the year of the novella.

Among his major works as a literary critic are essays on Goethe's novel Elective Affinities ; the work of Franz Kafka and Karl Kraus ; translation theory ; the stories of Nikolai Leskov ; the work of Marcel Proust and perhaps most significantly, the poetry of Charles Baudelaire.

Astrida Tantillo's 2001 book Goethe's Elective Affinities and the Critics notes that:

In 1979, director Francis Ford Coppola, in the grip of clinical manic depression and anxiety over his incomplete opus Apocalypse Now, and while purportedly under the influence of his girlfriend, screenwriter Melissa Mathison, proposed making a " ten-hour film version of Goethe's Elective Affinities, in 3D ".

* Walter Benjamin wrote an essay entitled " Goethe's Elective Affinities ".

The play takes place in modern times and 1809, Goethe's time ; characters are replaced subtly, e. g. ' The Captain ' becomes ' The Naval Captain '; and the chemical affinity becomes updated in the play with discussion on the second law of thermodynamics, chaos theory, among other subjects ; albeit the play still holds to the idea that the characters of reactive entities, discussing ideas such as the " heat " of interactions between the characters.

In his early works, Steiner sought to overcome what he perceived as the dualism of Cartesian idealism and Kantian subjectivism by developing Goethe's conception of the human being as a natural-supernatural entity, that is: natural in that humanity is a product of nature, supernatural in that through our conceptual powers we extend nature's realm, allowing it to achieve a reflective capacity in us as philosophy, art and science.

Prometheus is the lyrical " I " who speaks in Goethe's Sturm und Drang poem " Prometheus " ( written ca.

He based his epistemology on Johann Wolfgang Goethe's world view, in which “ Thinking … is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear.

Proserpina's figure inspired many artistic compositions, eminently in sculpture ( Bernini, see The Rape of Proserpina ( Bernini ) ) in painting ( D. G. Rossetti, a fresco by Pomarancio, J. Heintz, A. Durer, Dell ' Abbate, M. Parrish ) and in literature ( Goethe's Proserpina and Swinburne's Hymn to Proserpine and The Garden of Proserpine ) The statue of the Rape of Prosepina by Pluto that stands in the Great Garden ( more correctly, Großer Garten ) of Dresden, Germany is also referred to as " Time Ravages Beauty ".

A spike of emulation suicides after a widely publicized suicide is known as the Werther effect, following Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.

' for indeed, it was near – only five miles from the cultural heart of Germany – ' that nation of universities ' [...]" ( p. 100 ).</ ref > The Goethe Eiche ( Goethe's Oak ) stood inside the camp's perimeter, and the stump of the tree is preserved as part of the memorial at KZ Buchenwald.

) Helen is also conjured by Faust in Goethe's Faust.

* Laertes is a character in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.

In Part II of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Mephistopheles tries to catch a Lamia, only to find out that she is an illusion:

In many versions of the story, particularly Goethe's drama, Mephistopheles helps him to seduce a beautiful and innocent girl, usually named Gretchen, whose life is ultimately destroyed.

In Goethe's rendition, Faust is saved by God's grace via his constant striving — in combination with Gretchen's pleadings with God in the form of the Eternal Feminine.

A hybrid between a play and an extended poem, Goethe's two-part " closet drama " is epic in scope.

Mefistofele is one of many pieces of classical music based on the Faust legend, and like many other composers, Boito used Goethe's version as his starting point.

On that same day Stalin left his autograph on the last page of this work by Gorky: " Эта штука сильнее чем " Фауст " Гёте ( любовь побеждает смерть )"( " This piece is stronger than Goethe's Faust ( love defeats death )".

The state of mind produced by that shock is reflected in his novel Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis ( The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis ) ( 1798 ), which was described by the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica as a more politicized version of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, " for the hero of Foscolo embodies the mental sufferings and suicide of an undeceived Italian patriot just as the hero of Goethe places before us the too delicate sensitiveness embittering and at last cutting short the life of a private German scholar.

A famous literary expression of misotheistic sentiment is Goethe's Prometheus, composed in the 1770s.

The book is remembered solely through Goethe's scornful attack on its want of taste ; its immediate effect was to produce Bahrdt's expulsion from Gießen.

In turn, Harry offends the man and his wife by criticizing the wife's picture of Goethe, which Harry feels is too thickly sentimental and insulting to Goethe's true brilliance.

More ambitious and on a wider canvas are the historical or semi-historical novels, Dichterleben ( 1826 ), Der Aufruhr in den Cevennen ( 1826, unfinished ), Der Tod des Dichters ( 1834 ); Der junge Tischlermeister ( 1836 ; but begun in 1811 ) is an excellent story written under the influence of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister ; Vittoria Accorombona ( 1840 ), the story of Vittoria Accoramboni written in the style of the French Romanticists, shows a falling-off.

Toohey is an unabashed collectivist and Rand's personification of evil ( when speaking freely, he explicitly compares himself to Goethe's Mephisto, who tempted Faust to destruction ).

Part I is based on the Latin text of a 9th-century Christian hymn for Pentecost, Veni creator spiritus (" Come, Creator Spirit "), and Part II is a setting of the words from the closing scene of Goethe's Faust.

Near the end of the novel ( Chapter 62 ), Pelagia receives a photograph from Günter Weber with a German passage from Goethe's " Faust " ( also a very popular German Lied, set to music by Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrad ) written on the back.

Goethe's work is set around 1792 at the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars, when French forces under General Custine invaded and briefly occupied parts of the Palatinate.

It rapidly became very popular among international readers and subsequently played an important role in reviving interest in and appreciation of Goethe's work both in Germany and around the world.

It was in fact originally two houses, dating from around 1600 in typical medieval wooden-fronted style, until 1755, when Goethe's father extensively remodeled and modernized them into the single structure we see today.

**** Weimar Classicism ( 1788 – 1805 ) or ( 1788 – 1832 ), depending on Schiller's ( 1805 ) or Goethe's ( 1832 ) death

In 1888, as a result of his work for the Kürschner edition of Goethe's works, Steiner was invited to work as an editor at the Goethe archives in Weimar.

Goethe's endorsement was a major factor behind Johanna's quick social success: Johanna was the first upper-class woman in Weimar society to willingly open the doors of her house to Goethe's wife, Christiane Vulpius, who was of lower-class background and a mistress of Goethe's before legally marrying him during the French invasion.

Image: Goethe Iphigenia in Tauris 1803. jpg | Scene from the 1802 première in Weimar of Goethe's " Iphigenia in Tauris, with Goethe himself as Orestes in the centre.

Later he traveled to Italy ( 1786 ) where he met Goethe, and on his return to Germany he took up residence as Goethe's guest at Weimar.

Schadow developed a friendship with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe when at first Goethe's son visited Schadow in Weimar.

At the end of the Second World War, he went to Germany as a journalist, and it is to him that we owe the retrieving of Goethe's and Schiller's coffins, which had disappeared from Weimar in 1943 / 44.

In 1797, possibly through Goethe's influence, Vulpius obtained employment at the Weimar library, of which he became chief librarian in 1806.

He was born at Berlin, and obtained, while quite a young man, an appointment in the court theatre at Weimar, at that time under Goethe's auspices.

For many years Becker was the favourite of the Weimar stage, and although he was at his best in comedy, he played, to Goethe's great satisfaction, Vansen in Egmont, and was also seen to great advantage in the leading parts of several of Schiller's plays ; notably Burleigh in Maria Stuart, Karl Moor in Die Räuber, and Antonio in Torquato Tasso.

Written mainly after his return to Weimar, they contain poems on many sexual themes, and some were suppressed from publication during Goethe's lifetime due to fears of censorship.

This meeting is memorable as being the immediate cause of Goethe's later intimate connection with the Weimar court.

For him, Goethe's cottage at Weimar was still the ideal type of the German residential building.

Thomas Mann's 1939 novel, Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns, or otherwise known by Lotte in Weimar or The Beloved Returns, is a story written in the shadow of Goethe ; Thomas Mann developed the narrative almost as a response to Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, although Goethe's work is more than 150 years older than Lotte in Weimar.

The Beloved Returns is the story of one of Goethe's old romantic interests, a real historical figure by the name of Charlotte Kestner, who has come to Weimar to see him again after more than 40 years of separation.

Most of the novel is written as dialogues between Charlotte and the other residents of Weimar, who give their own opinions on the issue of Goethe's genius.

Within a few days, the British press was commenting that these were not Goethe's words at all but words put into his mouth by Thomas Mann in the seventh chapter of his novel Lotte in Weimar.