Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The key themes of Woyzeck
- Povety
- Symbolisum - Heat
- Heat and sweat = hard labour
- 'insides running like hot butter'
- 'Hot whore's lips'
- 'You'd think stink would bring the angels from heaven'
- Suffering
- The Bible
- Religion
- Woyzeck and Marie not married
- Woyzeck washing his sins away- Marie's Blood
- Woyzeck's lines - Book or revelations
- Worlds Guilt and Evil
- Marie - Eve (garden of Eden)
- Tempted my gifts (Drum Major)
- Marie- Mary Magdalene praying for forgiveness
- Madness
- Animal Nature
- Head Rolling down hill - Headgehog
- Drum Major - Lion
- Monkey dressed as a soilder
- Woyzeck pissing like a dog
- Marie- Wild Animal
- Sexuality
- Marie + Drum Major
- Status/Power/Money (earings)
- 'Hot Lips'
- Drum Major
- 'Beast' (Lion, Stallion, Cockerel)
- Nothing but Physical Sex.
- Woyzeck and Maire
- Not satisfying his wife
- Heat
- 'Your cold Maire, but your hot'
- 'You won't feel the cold anymore'
- Violence
- Hallucinations connected to violence and worldwide destruction
- Guilty Violence - Captain, Doctor, Drum Major.
- Physical Violence/fight - Drum Major and Woyzeck
- Woyzeck Murder
- Knife
- Andres and Woyzeck cutting wood with knifes/hallucinations
- Razor to shave the captain- where he is being made fun of.
- When Maire tells him about her affair
- 'Put a knife in my guts if you want but not your hand on mine; foreboding the future.'
- 'Stab, stab the bitch dead'
- Tries to clean it- throws it into the water
- Buys a knife from the Jew-Economical jokes are made
- Jealousy
- Dehumanisation
- Military
- Human condition
- Low Status and wealth = suffering
- No one cares about him
- Marie - unfaithful
- Andres - doesn't listen to him
- Drum Major - has sex with his wife
- Captain- Teats him like a slave
- Doctor -uses him as an experiment
- Lunacy
- Peas- provoking hallucinations
- Sound and use of song
- Paranoia
- Science
- Reflection of the growth in interest in science
- Doctor will gain money and fame at the expense of Woyzeck
- Sciencetific exploration of his character resulting in his madness
- Colour
- Red
- Fire
- Blood
- Sex
- Black
- Guilt
- Madness
- The future
- Gold
- Earings
- Money
- Everything they want but don't have