POTENTIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF GOETHE'S CHARACTERS IN THE PRESENT DAY

This Post explores the above reflective question - half way through the Story.

Goethe wrote the Fairy Tale - The Green Snake and The Beautiful Lily - at the time of the French Revolution in response to Schiller's essays about the moral plight of man. Goethe felt at home with imaginative story writing to portray a point. He did this through the nature, role and activities of the nineteen characters present in the Story.

Taken as a whole they formed a community. A community of very diverse individuals. At the beginning they were all travelling their own paths, quite unconnected with each other. By the end they were all one community, incredibly united, all using their talents in total harmony.

Schiller was concerned about how the lands and communities in the region we now call Europe would become healed, work and Be together. Goethe's response was through the Fairy Tale.  

I publish this beginning of the Post straight away, the 16th of September, and will add to it over the coming weeks. If you have reflective questions within this context please ask them.