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The key themes of Woyzeck
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Mind Map on The key themes of Woyzeck, created by marygledson on 31/03/2014.
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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
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