delit1-4, Exercise 2: Sturm und Drang and the Enlightenment

Model answer (check the details):

Three values of Sturm und Drang:
1. Feeling and passion over cool reason.
2. Original genius, breaking rules, over imitation of models.
3. Nature and the folk (Herder's songs, Shakespeare's freedom) over polite, court culture.

How they differ from the Enlightenment: the Enlightenment stressed reason, criticism, education and clear rules of taste, and aimed at improvement. Sturm und Drang valued intensity and individuality and often rebelled against social limits.

Qualification: the two overlap. Lessing was a rationalist who also admired Shakespeare, and the Storm and Stress writers shared the Enlightenment's belief in freedom. The contrast is one of emphasis and generation, not a clean break.