Model
Digital Document
Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Description
This thesis examines the interrelation of love and loneliness in
the plot, structure, symbolism and characters' gestures in Theodor
Storm's Novellen, to determine the function of love in its connection
to tne ever-present theme of loneliness in Storm's fiction.
Lave between man and woman is the basic lave relationship considered
in the investigation. Storm shows how love can overcome
loneliness in various ways. The memory of a past love relationship
is used to combat present loneliness. The idea of a lasting
love relationship is embraced as the only possible solace in man's
lonely struggle for existence. The love relationship is the faundation
of a chain of generations which links the past, present and
future, and, therefore, limits the loneliness inherent in human
transitoriness. Love can only limit loneliness in Storm's Novellen,
never eliminate it.
the plot, structure, symbolism and characters' gestures in Theodor
Storm's Novellen, to determine the function of love in its connection
to tne ever-present theme of loneliness in Storm's fiction.
Lave between man and woman is the basic lave relationship considered
in the investigation. Storm shows how love can overcome
loneliness in various ways. The memory of a past love relationship
is used to combat present loneliness. The idea of a lasting
love relationship is embraced as the only possible solace in man's
lonely struggle for existence. The love relationship is the faundation
of a chain of generations which links the past, present and
future, and, therefore, limits the loneliness inherent in human
transitoriness. Love can only limit loneliness in Storm's Novellen,
never eliminate it.
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