TY  - RPRT
A1  - Deinert, Herbert
T1  - Gretchen's infanticide
N2  - In the scene At The Well, Gretchen herself describes the sequence of events best and in all their fateful simplicity. It is the progress from "sin" to "shame", that is to public disgrace as soon as her private transgression becomes "visible" as pregnancy. Already here the painful confusion over her private perception ("good, dear love", lines 3585/6) and public judgment ("slut", line 3753) which will eventually drive her mad is obvious. In her derangement and despair she will destroy the evidence against her, that is, drown her child.
KW  - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
KW  - Kindesmord
KW  - Brandt, Susanna Margaretha
KW  - Gretchen
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13835
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1147431
UR  - http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/hd11/Gretchen.html
N1  - Herbert Deinert (Professor of German Studies, Emeritus) Department of German Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853. Zusätzliches Material findet sich unter: http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/hd11/
ER  -