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Embarrassment and Individual Identity in Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften

Abstract:Embarrassment is the central emotion in the narration of Goethe's Elective Affinities. As a self-reflective emotion that relies heavily on social context, frequent emphasis on embarrassment in the novel's narration points to a framework for a socially constructed individual. Ottilie's martyrdom is the result of her rejection of the plastic self necessitated by social construction. Key scenes of this analysis include the depiction of Ottilie's failures in school, her arrival at Eduard and Charlotte's estate, and the three deaths in the novel's second half. Goethe's Elective Affinities, therefore, should be read as an ideological sequel to Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and a continuation of its exploration of the modern individual.