Inspired by Goethe's own conflicting loyalties as he battled to maintain his relationship with his wife and control his feelings for a younger woman, Elective Affinities is one of the greatest works of the romance era: a rich exploration of love, conflict, and the inescapable force of fate. Taking its title from the principle of elective affinities - the theory that certain chemicals are naturally drawn to one another - this is a penetrating study of marriage and adultery. They have both been married before and widowed. Charlotte and Edward are a wealthy Victorian couple who have been married for a few years. In Elective Affinities, a novel of tragic love, Goethe employs all the requisites of sentimental romance to give a deeply ironic perspective to the idea of love. But the peace of their existence is thrown into chaos when two visitors - Eduard's friend the Captain and Charlotte's passionate young ward Ottilie - provoke unexpected attraction and forbidden love. This detailed literature summary also contains Topics for Discussion and a Free Quiz on Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Containing three of Goethe’s major prose works, this volume explores a range of themes: unfulfilled love, infidelity, divorce, tragic love, fantasy, and moral rebirth. Goethe's Elective Affinities: With an Introduction (Classic Reprint) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe No preview available - 2018. Eduard and Charlotte are an aristocratic couple who live a harmonious but idle life in their estate.
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