O PERCURSO DE WILHELM MEISTER PELO TEATRO: O DILEMA DA FORMA E DA FORMAÇÃO

Abstract

While it is true to say that there was a formation through theater, in Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, it is also true that such formation does not culminate in the character’s ideals of youth, namely, becoming the creator of a national theater and being able to live from his art. Instead, there is the abandonment of the theatrical universe. This article intends to demonstrate that this abandonment can be understood not as the end of the formative years, but rather as the overflow of the dramatic poetry
that puts the novel in the day’s agenda. This means that due to the emptying of a tragic poetic and the lack of a court theater (in Germany) it raises the question of novel within the Goethian novel itself at a crucial moment in which Shakespeare is discussed. It is in this perspective that this article will try to demonstrate that the dilemma of theatrical form will lead, from the English playwright, to an overflow of subjectivity in front of the spectacle while the dilemma of formation is solved by the individual’s adjustment to
concrete social reality.