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WikiP: The Werther Effect refers to the massive wave of emulation suicides after a widely publicized suicide, with the amount of suicides increasing proportionally to how widely covered the suicide is. First noticed after the publishing of “The Sorrows of Young Werther” the Werther effect has been demonstrated in many other highly publicized suicides, including fictional ones. The Werther effect not only predicts an increase in suicide, but the majority of the suicides will take place in the same or a similar way as the one publicized. The more similar the person in the publicized suicide is to the people exposed to the information about it, the more likely the age group or demographic is to commit suicide. Upon learning of someone else’s suicide many people decide that action is appropriate for them as well, especially if the publicized suicide was of someone in a similar situation as them. This also explains the increase in airplane and car fatalities after a widely publicized suicide, which has been hypothesized by sociologist David Phillips to be the secret application of the Werther effect thereby making the suicides look like an accident. In fact single victim suicides tend to increase single victim suicides while multiple victim suicides increase multiple victim suicides. Whatever happens in the publicized case is imitated. »Link to Related Article
A Character Analysis of Werther
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Werther is a young bourgeois dilettante – intelligent but arrogant, artistic but unmotivated – who finds his world topsy-turvy after becoming infatuated with Lotte, a beautiful and good-natured woman who is engaged to the sensible and hard-working Albert. Werther goes through life in his blue frock coat and yellow waistcoat, conversing brilliantly (though rather contentiously) with all who will listen, ruminating on his memories as well as subjective philosophy, and increasingly despairing of life and fate. He has a pensive, outsider’s position throughout the work: he loves to observe family life, but is somewhat estranged from his own mother; he wishes to be married to Lotte, but finds himself “just a friend.” This estranged sensitivity, exacerbated by his unrequited passion, leads him to commit suicide.
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Who is a modern Werther that young men emulate, that they see their own struggles reflected in?
Let’s edit Goethe’s Werther for the 21st Century. We’ll keep intelligent but arrogant, and artistic, but cut unmotivated–we need a literary hero who takes life by the throat and survives it. His love for a married woman needs to be updated, too.
Most modern day Werthers become parents young, and usually get married. So our guy is either in a dysfunctional marriage, or he’s divorced from an abusive one. In either scenario, the child of the two takes the brunt of the damage. This eats at the Modern Werther.
He wants to kill himself, like Goethe’s Werther did, but he can’t bear to leave his daughter. So, our Werther survives, because he has no choice. And our Werther is very pissed off.
Does that sound familiar?
Ladies and gentlemen of non-University literary studies,
I give you our Werther.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III
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Examine the Lyrics
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The above character analysis also states that:
“Werther goes through life in his blue frock coat and yellow waistcoat, conversing brilliantly (though rather contentiously) with all who will listen, ruminating on his memories as well as subjective philosophy, and increasingly despairing of life and fate. He has a pensive, outsider’s position throughout the work: he loves to observe family life, but is somewhat estranged from his own mother…”
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[Verse 1]
In my mind I’ma fighter, my heart’s a lighter
My soul is the fluid, my flow sparks it right up
Arsenic writer, author with arthritis
Carpel tunnel, Marshall will start shit-itis
Hard headed and hot headed, bull headed and pig headed,
Dick headed, a prick, a big headache I’m sick
Quick witted, for every lyric spitted there are 6 critics
Who wait for me to slip with it, so quick
This dynamite stick buried the wick, it’s gonna explode any minute
Some lunatic lit it and it’s not Nelly
Do not tell me to stop yelling, when I stop selling I quit
So stop dwelling an I am not felling
You fuckers are not ready, cause I got jelly, like (Beyonce’s) pot belly
This is Destiny, yes money I’m of running
So get off of me, I’m not slowing or softening
[Chorus]
No apologies, nah suckers I’m not sorry
You can all sue me, y’all could be the cause of me
No apologies, y’all feelin’ the force of me
No remorse for me, like there was no recourse for me
No apologies, not even acknowledging you at all
’till I get a call that god’s coming
No apologies, laugh fuckers it’s all funny
I can spit in ya face while your standin’ across from me, no apologies
[Verse 2]
My head hit’s the pillow, a weeping willow, I can’t sleep, a pain so deep it bellows
But these cellos help just to keep me mellow, hand’s on my head, touched knees to elbow
I’m hunched over, emotion just flows over, these cold shoulders are both frozen, you don’t know me
I keep saying it, I can’t stress it enough, so keep playing it and stand next to the subs
I choke mic’s like asphyxiation when I’m stranglin’ my own throat masturbatin’
Fuck yeah i’ma basket case and I mastered this rap shit, ’till my ass gets wasted, ’till my
assassination,
’till I’m slain ’cause of some fag’s infatuation
44 mags a fascination, a taste for disaster and if that’s the case then..
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
This song isn’t for you, it’s for me, a true MC
It’s what it do just to see if he still has it
And if his skills mastered,
He’s able to spill raps long after his killed, that’s a real MC
Got you feelin’ me, whether willing or unwillingly
You still agree, as long as there’s still this hunger and will in me
Then expect a longer life expectancy
I’d be a savage beast if I ain’t have this outlet to salvage me inside
I’d be exploding soaked in self loathing an mourning
So I’m warning you, don’t coax me
It’s silly, I’m really a sheep in wolf’s clothing
Who only reacts when he gets pushed, don’t be fooled
The press blows up this whole thing, it’s stupid
They don’t know cause they don’t see that I’m wounded
All they did was ballooned it
I’m sick of talkin’ ’bout these tattoos cartoon did
That’s why I tuned it out, I’m sick of dukin’
An they can suck my dick while I’m pukin’, an you too, you can
[Outro x2]
Expect no sympathy from me I’m an mc
This is how I’m supposed to be
Cold as a G, my hearts frozen it dont even beat
So expect no apologies
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Important Term: Catharsis
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