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The key themes of Woyzeck

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