Distraught and guilt-ridden, Melchior meets the dead Moritz, who offers him a chance to end his life. They are interrupted, however, by the appearance of a Masked Man, who attests that the conventional morality is nonsense. Generational conflict: The lack of positive adult characters in the play is an attempt by Wedekind to show the way in which older generations fail younger ones by forcing them to conform to societal standards.
Social taboos: The presence of teenage sexuality, abortion, homosexuality, masturbation, rape, etc. The teachers and parental figures in Spring Awakening, representative of bourgeois society, refuse to speak about these things, and the result is the death of two teenagers.
Morality: In Spring Awakening , Wedekind presents morality as a social construction. Spring Awakening is generally considered a modernist work.
The stiff, unsympathetic world of the adults is also a depiction of the world beneath the surface. The exaggerated incompetence of the school administrators and the lack of human feeling in any of the parents represent an adult world that forces the next generation to conform to its standards of behavior or be left behind. Examples of fragmented, unrealistic dialogue in the play include the awkward and insincere language Frau Gabor uses in her letter to Moritz and the dated, poetic language used by Melchior and Moritz to discuss their future lives.
Wedekind also experiments with a nonrealistic theater, creating a surreal graveyard scene in which the dead Moritz returns from the grave, and the mystery figure of the Masked Man explains the meaning of their experiences. Mistrusts Hanschen. He knows much more than the others because of what he reads in books and is able to see the corruption in society.
His radical points of view about most things are correct but misunderstood. He falls in love with Wendla. He has an overwhelming confusion relating to sexual feelings, which seems comedic at first, but quickly develops into a serious issue for him. The system has failed him. Highly sensitive and aware of his inability to fit into the system. Both characters try to lure Melchior. Ultimately, Melchior choses the Masked Man over Melchior — and thereby life over death — and is guided away by the cryptic figure.
These delicate topics and the critique of Wilhelmine bourgeois society led to censorings and bans during the early reception of the play. Johannes G. Search this site. Report abuse. Page details.
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