Refined and Bourgeois Ideology in The Sorrows of Young Werther Scholarly pundits, for example, Karl Grun and Johannes Scherr have propped up Johann Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther as progressive social analysis that made ready for a considerable lot of the uprisings in 1848 – Grun in any event, contending that the novel arranged the justification for the French Revolution. Be that as it may, as one of the most noticeable figures of nostalgia in Western writing, Werther is hard to translate as a social pundit without recognizing the obstruction his influence presents in taking on such a job. Friedrich Engels even blamed Grun for befuddling veritable social analysis with Werther's grievances about the disparity between average reality and his similarly common dream. Werther, says Engels, is a 'schwarmerischer Tranensack' (marvelous lachrymal sack) (Duncan 76). Can we, at that point, reprimand the analysis Werther voices as not authentic in light of his middle class distinguishing proof and his self-serving vision of social request?