From the first narrators to the most recent Poet Laureate, inner emotion has always fueled the creators of artistic language. Without internal conflict and without emotions that arise from that conflict, there is no wood to make the fire burn, no motivation behind the words. While all artistic writers have emotion as inspiration for their works, and all poets use emotion as the stimulus or subject of their writings, sentimentalists have taken the most intense view on the emotional spectrum in artistic writing. Because of their almost melodramatic use of emotions and their willingness to delve into the most intimate feelings, sentimentalist writers such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe were perhaps the best authorities on writing about emotions. Emotion is the flame that fuels human experience, and Goethe exemplifies this extreme passion characteristic of sentimentalism. Of all the sentimentalist works, Goethe respects every characteristic of this literary movement: the immediate recording of the feelings experienced, the intensity with which these feelings are described, the use of nature as a reflection of human nature and the plot that drives the emotions . Goethe's novel The Sufferings of Young Werther contains each of these aspects of sentimentalism. The Sufferings of Young Werther is an entirely epistolary novel, where Werther documents his every emotional experience. Every time he has an experience, he is influenced by an intense feeling, he talks about it and sends it in a letter to his friend Wilhelm. This is an immediate and effective expression of his feeling, characteristic of the strength of sentimentalism. Since this novel is more or less autobiographical, it perfectly reflects the emotional impact on human beings. Goethe and W...... middle of paper ...... action causes emotion which causes more action. Human nature is to be emotional, and expressing that emotion, often in a powerful way, is the best way to release it. Although melodrama is not particularly accepted in modern society, when an emotion swells inside a person, it must be released. The more powerful the release of a feeling, the more effective the release. Emotion is like a Chinese finger trap: the further you move away from it, the tighter it has on you; if you push yourself as hard as you can (express it as fully as possible), then you will be liberated. The best authors on emotions are those who reveal them most forcefully, and although exaggerated by modern norms, Goethe is the undisputed leader. Looking at my previous examples, there is no parallel to the level of expression of any other author we have studied thus far.