L’ESTHÉTIQUE DE LA VENGEANCE DANS LE CRIMINEL PAR HONNEUR PERDU (1792) DE SCHILLER

Abstract : Schiller's work, The Criminal of lost Honor (1792), is an essential social critique, characteristic of his opposition to the tyranny of the ruling classes. The story explores the social failure and rejection suffered by the character Wolf, leading him to defy the law. The article examinesthe archaeology of Wolf'srevenge, analyzing Schiller's life, the character of Wolf, and the manifestations of his revenge. Schiller, a rebellious poet of the Sturm und Drang movement, challenged the social rigidities of his time. A writer and theorist of aesthetics, born on November 10, 1759, in Marbach am Neckar and died on May 9, 1805, in Weimar, he is one of the great classics of German literature. The feudal era in which he lived structured society into rigid social classes, a barrier that Schiller and Goethe explored in their works. Key words : Schille, revenge, sturm, drang,Wolf, True crime