What matures Wilhelm in the text

 

Wilelm as a poet who is against the materialism of the bourgeois(Werner): Book 2, chapter 2

 

1. his passion and involvement with the play, the play as a metonymy of a human life 

 

2. his contact with the members of other classes(nobilities and commoners):

 

3. his affairs with women: Mariane, Philine, Countess, Aurelia, and Nathalie:

 

4. his relations with Harpist and Mignon:

 

5. his passion for Hamlet: his conversation with Jarno in Book 3, Chapter 11