Chapter I: Frank Wedekind
M. Helena Gonçalves da Silva
From Character, Ideology, and Symbolism in the Plays of Wedekind, Sternheim, Kaiser, Toller, and Brecht (1985), pp. 1-28, doi:10.59860/td.c59e58e
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| Part of the book: Character, Ideology, and Symbolism in the Plays of Wedekind, Sternheim, Kaiser, Toller, and Brecht M. Helena Gonçalves da Silva MHRA Texts and Dissertations 21 Modern Humanities Research Association Abstract. Frank Wedekind. A radical critique of the middle class. Instincts and bourgeois morality. A double profile of the outsider, as an enlarged reflection of bourgeois vice and as the means of unmasking it. Frühlingserwachen: Innocence in conflict with sexual taboo through a poetical representation of the adolescent's sensual awakening and a caricature of the Wilhelmine middle-class adult. Erdgeist and Die Büchse der Pandora: Lulu, symbol of natural libido. The sub-criminal world as a bizarre model of bourgeois society. Lulu's irrevocable downfall. Der Marquis von Keith: Bourgeois behaviour and tactics defined through social resistance to the outsider (Keith and Scholz). Keith and Scholz together as the formula for the 'perfect' bourgeois. Der Kammersänger: a caricature of the bourgeois artist. Full text. This contribution is published as Open Access and can be downloaded as a PDF, or viewed as a PDF in your web browser, here: |
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