As he crosses
"the dividing line between north and south," Goethe describes
his experience of entering Italy and Southern Europe
as going back in time to an undeveloped Northern
Europe. When Goethe reaches the forty-eight parallel, the division between
Southern and Northern Europe, he feels as if “the mountains slowly drew nearer,
a new world opened before me.” What Goethe means by a new world is not just a
place that he has never been to, but also a place that is strikingly
undeveloped and premature. Southern Europe’s primitive society stood in great
contrast with the developed Northern Europe where Goethe had came from.
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