Goethe's first and most famous narrative work, The Sorrows of Young Werther, beautifully captures the spirit of the birth of Romanticism in Germany. Beauty being essential for the romantics, Kant defines it as “purposeless determination”. Goethe had the same idea when writing, insofar as aesthetic judgment is different from subjective or cognitive judgment. These aesthetic judgments concern the experience of an object designed for the emotion it can arouse, and not for a particular intention. In his drawings and in The Sorrows of Young Werther, Goethe seeks to revere nature. His European predecessors who followed the Age of Enlightenment sought to rationalize and view nature empirically. Goethe and the Romantics rejected this hypothesis and considered nature in terms of its artistic qualities. To embrace and connect more with nature, the Romantics used powerful emotions and intuition to enhance the aesthetics of their surroundings. Goethe wrote The Sorrows of Young Werther as a semi-autobiographical work. Both Goethe and Werther drew and admired nature – they were both true romantics. Goethe, like Werther, felt sadness and tragic despair when he fell in love with an unobtainable woman. In this regard, The Sorrows of Young Werther as well as his drawings made at the same time are purifying works which helped Goethe to soothe his unhealthy feelings. Since it is necessary to analyze an artist's work in the same terms as the era in which it was created, there are inherent connections between the novel and the drawings. Goethe's drawings are invariably linked to the text of the novel because they were produced at the same time as he was writing. His drawing, Bergige Flusslandschaft mit Burgturm und Mühle (1765), translates as mountain...... middle of paper ......es Werther for his knowledge, while he felt that it should rather be valued because of his emotions. Ataraxia is a Dionysian ideal because it is an emotional state of tranquility and freedom. Werther is content to acknowledge that he does not know where his heart will lead him, and in this he is not weighed down by things beyond his control. He demonstrates this by reading Homer and taking the time to contemplate the world around him. Goethe's drawings are intrinsically linked to his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther since they were drawn at the time the book was written. Both art forms capture and appeal to the romantics' strong emotional senses. Many art forms run parallel to each other, which further illuminates each form individually, giving a greater impression of Goethe's appeal to the aesthetic movement he helped establish in which emotions must be untamed and fully accepted..