Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening

The success of the play is a tragedy for Max and Leo. The play was “Spring Time for Hitler;” a play that will offend “people from all races, creeds, and religions” (Brooks and Meechan 109). Max and Leo expect to offend people to the degree that the musical will be a resounding failure. The audience in the theater becomes offended in the beginning of the play, but when Hitler appears the audience gets shock because Hitler is gay. The audience change their view about the play in the moment that they associated they play with a parody. This event happened in Act two scene four and is the most critical moment in the

The novel The Awakening is an empowering masterpiece that shows a woman stepping out of the social norm to find her bliss. Edna Pontellier is expected to be the perfect wife and perfect mother. The needs of her husband and children are supposed to triumph over her own. She is well ahead of her time because she wants independence and to live her life to the fullest. In Chopin’s story, not only is there a daring young woman who is on the hunt to find her independence, but there is also a housewife, whose life belongs to her family.

The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, is the story of a woman who is seeking freedom. Edna Pontellier feels confined in her role as mother and wife and finds freedom in her romantic interest, Robert Lebrun. Although she views Robert as her liberator, he is the ultimate cause of her demise. Edna sees Robert as an image of freedom, which brings her to rebel against her role in society. This pursuit of freedom, however, causes her death. Chopin uses many images to clarify the relationship between Robert and Edna and to show that Robert is the cause of both her freedom and her destruction.

The humanly gift of imagination is a unique power within that subconsciously is a locomotor to both the body and spirit to a person 's individual Elysium. It goes far and beyond our cognition into an exuberant fantasy molded by our wants and desires, reaching untamed worlds. Turning imagination into realism is denounced as an impossible being, but it 's in fact the awakening to our lucid dreaming. Edna Pontellier is a woman with a heart that soared beyond the horizons into a limitless world, forced into cage by the inevitable way of life. Kate Chopin through the beautifully sculpted novel “The Awakening” condemned Edna with a mindset beyond her years, finding meaning through her unsocial actions shunned by the eyes of others. Edna used her

As the novel progresses, Edna is able to escape from the hands of Leonce Pontellier, and she moves into a small house down the street in which she calls the pigeon house. The symbol of the bird is used here by saying she may be able to release herself from Leonce but she isn’t able to release herself from society, that she if forever trapped. In the end of the novel, before Edna’s tragedy, a bird with a broken wing crashes into the sea. This bird can be connected with the advice that Mademoiselle Reisz told Edna that she needed strong wings to soar. The connection for shadows Edna’s tragedy, and reveals her complete failure to find complete freedom and happiness.

The great awakening was a devoted religious revival movement in the 1720s through the 1740s that was spread throughout the colonies by ministers. It inspired ordinary citizen to assert their right to independent judgment by allowing them to make their own decisions about their religion and personal lives. The great awakening sparked people to stand up for what they believed in; their religion. It inspired ordinary citizens to stand up against the authority so that they could basically have freedom of religion.

Recently I (and many others) have read the story “Flowers for Algernon, and the movie “Awakenings”.

TOPIC #3- EXPLORE HOW EACH MAN IN EDNA’S LIFE ATTEMPTED TO CONTROL AND/OR REPRESS HER EXISTENCE..

The Great Awakening- was four periods of great religious revival in American religious history. Religious passion happened between 18th century to the 19th century. These "Great Awakenings" was set apart by widespread revivals led by biblical Protestant ministers which resulted to the increase of interest in religion, an extreme sense of judgment and freeing from sins on the part of those affected, a rise in church membership, and the creation of new movements and denominations.

"Daniel states that he does not select a exclusive kind of woman and he has no longer fought about it and his dream woman is not stereotypical.

The brand of education amongst slaves from the Great Awakening takes on several faces, some prove to be profitable to the ideas spread by Whitefield while others prove to be detrimental to the perception of educating slaves in Christianity that prevent the further expansion of evangelization to slaves. Two portrayals of implementation of Awakening rhetoric are with the Bryan family, southern planters in South Carolina, and Samuel Davies, a minister in Virginia. The Bryan family had a connection with George Whitefield because they would provide assistance to evangelicals and in particular with Whitefield’s Bethesda orphanage in Georgia. They owned a plantation in South Carolina that helped provide financial support for the orphanage and they were zealous about the new wave of evangelicalism in the colonies and were seeking ways that they could implement the new teachings into their lives. Jonathan Bryan began to seek reforms in the institution of slavery in South Carolina by following the teachings of Whitefield. Their critiques of South Carolina were that there was no time for slaves to convert to Christianity because they would generally work seven days a week and not have the opportunity to hear about Christianity.

While men’s lives were placed on pedestals in the early twentieth century, women’s lives were taken for granted. Women had a scarce amount of social opportunities, and were often limited to being a mother and a wife. Instead of being able to be themselves and speak their mind, females had to take the back seat and allow men’s feelings and voice to be heard and catered to. The custom of the early twentieth century encompassed the idea of men working all day while the women cleaned the house, cooked the food, and took care of the children that the men did not always want. Women had no opportunity to express themselves in a different way, other than small parties or get togethers held during vacation time. The women that found themselves and focused

For Centuries, man has been caught in the middle of a tug of war between two influences. One influence stems from society, an Apollonian lifestyle of order, structure, responsibility, while the other is the individual’s inner Dionysian desire for indulgence, impulsiveness, freedom. In Kate Chopin’s novella The Awakening, Chopin depicts Apollonian and Dionysian values through the description of certain settings and characters, while also depicting the dramatic inner battle that the protagonist, Edna Pontellier, experiences between these two influences. By showing the pull that Edna feels between the societal Apollonian lifestyle of structure and confinement versus the individual-based Dionysian lifestyle of freedom, Chopin implies that women

The Awakening by Kate Chopin published in 1899 is a novel that can teach the true meaning of family, the importance of friendship, and the value of independence. Chopin teaches the true meaning of family by showing how Edna receives no support from her own family and struggles to succeed without them. Chopin shows the importance of friendship when Edna has no one by her side until she meets a woman named Adele and a man named Robert. The primary area that Chopin focuses on is the satisfaction of independence. Edna loses herself throughout time but has two friends to help her get back on track. In The Awakening, Kate Chopin uses family, friendship, and independence in order to show the obstacles women go through, such as being disciplined by the men in their life, and not being able to choose who they would like to spend the rest of their life with, in the 1800s.

As an audience member in the play Spring Awakening I would say that the acting, directing, and design came together for a successful production and interpretation of this 19th century German Drama. First off, the majority of the actors showcase the Realism and Naturalism that the producer Frank Wedekind intended for this period piece. I would say the majority excelled because I was personally confused by the two adult leads having multiple roles. But once I caught onto what was happening I feel that it did not take away from the play as a whole. Later in class I learned that the play suggested that the adult leads should have multiple roles which helped me to understand the production. This is the director's choice to follow what is suggested