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- Woyzeck is aware of the connection between his poverty and the injustices he endures daily. Indeed, he characterizes suffering as a fundamental trait of an impoverished life. At one point, he muses that the poor will continue to suffer even in the afterlife, tasked with the grueling job of “help [ing] out with the thunder.”
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Woyzeck is aware of the connection between his poverty and the injustices he endures daily. Indeed, he characterizes suffering as a fundamental trait of an impoverished life. At one point, he muses that the poor will continue to suffer even in the afterlife, tasked with the grueling job of “help[ing] out with the thunder.”
- Woyzeck Study Guide | Literature Guide - LitCharts
Before his execution, Woyzeck told a clergyman that he had...
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Poverty and Suffering. Woyzeck tells the story of Franz...
- Woyzeck Study Guide | Literature Guide - LitCharts
Jul 30, 2020 · Woyzeck’s dispossession and disorientation under the treatment of society’s authority figures leads Marie to seek relief in an affair with a drum major, and her infidelity is the final impetus toward Woyzeck’s psychic break.
Woyzeck's suffering is inextricable from his social condition. However, it is also universal and raises him up out of anonymity to an archetypal and even Christ-like status. According to Buchner, Woyzeck's suffering--as a symbol of human suffering in general--is undeserved.
Before his execution, Woyzeck told a clergyman that he had experienced hallucinations and heard voices telling him to murder Woost. However, the physician who examined Woyzeck, Dr. J.C.A. Clarus, deemed him sane and fit to stand trial.
Poverty and Suffering. Woyzeck tells the story of Franz Woyzeck, a soldier stationed in a German town in the early nineteenth century. Woyzeck’s low social status as a soldier leaves him vulnerable to abuse and exploitation from his employers and other higher-ranking members of his community.
A soldier, and Woyzeck’s companion. He provides a contrast of sanity against Woyzeck’s madness. Woyzeck The protagonist. He is a soldier, working class and poor. He is inherently good, but the world around him causes him suffering. The authority figures of the Captain and the Doctor exploit him.
Woyzeck is jealous of Marie’s affair with a drum major. Filled with rage, he explodes into violence. Büchner based Woyzeck on an account of an actual murder case in which a soldier killed his mistress in a jealous frenzy and was subsequently the object of medical controversy regarding his sanity.
