Gottfried Wolfgang

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Gottfried Wolfgang is the troubled German student protagonist of Washington Irving’s Gothic short story “The Adventure of the German Student,” whose eerie romantic encounter in Revolutionary Paris leads to a macabre revelation.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
literary character
short story protagonist
appearsIn The Adventure of the German Student
associatedObject guillotine
associatedTheme Gothic horror
madness
romantic obsession
supernatural ambiguity
characterTrait imaginative
melancholic
morbidly romantic
solitary
creator Washington Irving
encounters apparently supernatural phenomena in Revolutionary Paris
familyName Wolfgang
fictionalUniverse The Adventure of the German Student
fieldOfStudy German philosophy
metaphysics
mysticism
firstPublicationContext Tales of a Traveller
genreContext Gothic fiction
givenName Gottfried
hasBackstoryEvent became absorbed in visionary and mystical writings
studied in Germany before traveling to Paris
suffered from disordered imagination
hasLoveInterest mysterious young woman executed by guillotine
languageOfWork English
literaryMovementContext American Romanticism
mentalState prone to hallucinations
troubled
narrativeFunction unreliable focal character
narrativeRole protagonist
nationality German
notableEvent discovers the woman dead beside him in the morning
learns that the woman had been executed the previous day
meets a mysterious young woman near the guillotine in Paris
spends the night with the mysterious woman in his lodgings
occupation student
relatedWork Tales of a Traveller
surface form: Tales of a Traveller by Washington Irving
settingOfActivity Paris
Reign of Terror
symbolicallyRepresents the collision of reason and superstition
the dangers of unrestrained imagination
timePeriod French Revolution
ultimateFate confined to a madhouse

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