Neither, it is simply a sympathetic depiction of a type of person Goethe knew and saw himself in.
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If you want to see the outside, a book about the contemporary readers who liked Werther, see Moritz's Anton Reiser
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These people were psychologically unstable outsiders, severe autists who came from severe lower middle class Pietist religious backgrounds
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They attended schools on charity where they didn't fit in and became attracted to theater and novels as stage of new social consciousness
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this is every evangelical theatre kid i knew.
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At first I thought he lampooned but apparently English werther comes of as more whiny and less facetious than in german. Not an expert thou
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