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Effi Briest is the daughter of a nobleman in northern GermanyThe Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east. At seventeen, she is married off to Baron Geert von Innstetten, a man twice her age who years ago had courted her mother and been turned down because of his insufficient social position, which he has in the meantime improved.
Effi, still practically a child, but attracted by notions of social honour, consents to living in the small BalticThe Baltic region (sometimes briefly The Baltics is an ambiguous term used to denominate an arbitrary region connected to the Baltic Sea (also called The Baltics . The term Balticum has a more precise meaning but is not as common in English. Etymology Bal town of Kessin, where she is miserably unhappy. Her husband is away for weeks at a time, she finds but one companion in the whole town, being snubbed by the local aristocracy, and her suspicions that their house may be haunted are, perhaps on purpose, not completely laid to rest by Innstetten.
The genial and somewhat crass Major Crampas comes to town, and although he is married and known as a womanizer, Effi cannot help but enjoy his attentions. Although we are only delicately told, a full relationship is consumed.
Years later Effi's daughter Annie is growing up, the family has moved to BerlinBerlin [ bɛrˈliːn ] is the national capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,387,404 inhabitants (as of September 2004); down from 4. 5 million before World War II. Berlin is located on the rivers Spree and Havel in the northea as Innstetten moves up in the ranks, and all in all things have turned out well for Effi. But perchance her ancient correspondence with Crampas sees the light of day, and Innstetten decides immediately to divorceDivorce or dissolution of marriage is the ending of a marriage, which can be contrasted with an annulment which is a declaration that a marriage is void, though the effects of marriage may be recognized in such unions, such as spousal support, child custo her. He is given custody of their daughter.
Miserable Effi lives alone, as, covered by scandal as she is, her parents will not take her back. Crampas is challenged to a duelFor an account of the Steven Spielberg film, see Duel (movie). A duel or duel of honour is a form of armed combat in which two individuals participate. Duels represent a contrived combat situation designed to maximize fairness of combat. They usually deve and killed by Innstetten, who all along feels that the drastic measures he has taken were not actually necessary. His life, too, is ruined.
Effi is finally taken in by her parents, and dies serenely at the estate of Hohen Cremmen, in a very symmetrical ending that matches the beginning of the novel. Her parents vaguely realize their responsibility in her unhappiness, but their lack of intelligence and sensitivity prohibits them from fully understanding the meaning of what happened and its reasons.
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