Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s Drammars are Atractive with Literary Devices

Abstract

This article shows the main theoretical works of Lessing (Laocoon, Hamburg Drama, etc.) are written in an acutely polemical form, with tremendous energy and temperament. Lessing's struggle against such enemies as the head of German classicism Gottsched, the antiquary Klotz, the reactionary theologian Götse, stirred up the ideological life of Germany and helped awaken the progressive democratic minds. In the eyes of Lessing, there is one main criterion for evaluating not only an individual person, but also each nation - their service to the progressive ideals of humanity, the ideals of humanism and progress.