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1、 The book "The Marriage of Figaro" was imprisoned for its disrespect towards the privileged class, but the brilliant ideas presented in "The Marriage of Figaro" inspired Mozart's later opera of the same name.
2、 As Goethe's most important representative work, 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' tells us a poignant and moving love story.
3、 The social impact of this epistolary novel, created in just four weeks based on Goethe's personal experience, is immeasurable.
4、 It once deeply shook the hearts of young people who were contemporaries of Goethe. They not only imitated the speech, behavior, and clothing of the protagonist "Werther" in the work, but also followed in the footsteps of "Werther" due to heartbreak, easily ending their own youthful lives.
5、 It is said that Emperor Napoleon, who swept across the European continent at that time, also had a keen eye for this book. Even during the raging battles, he never forgot to bring it with him so that he could read it at any time.