The key themes of Woyzeck

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

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