In Elective Affinities Goethe conducts an experiment with the lives
of people who are living badly. Charlotte and Eduard, aristocracts
with little to occupy them, invite Ottilie and the Captain into
their lives; against morality, good sense, and conscious volition
all four are drawn into relationships as inexorably as if they were
substances in a chemical equation. The novel asks whether we have
free will or not; more disturbingly, it confronts its characters
with the monstrous consequences of their repression of any real
life in themselves. Goethe wrote Elective Affinities when he was
sixty and long established as Germany's literary giant. He remained
an uneasy and scandalous figure, none the less, and readers of
Elective Affinities were profoundly disturbed by its penetrating
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