47 pages 1 hour read

Frank Wedekind

Spring Awakening: A Children’s Tragedy

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1891

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Essay Topics

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How do you square the message of personal responsibility for one’s actions and future in the final scene with the outsize harm the parents cause their children with their prudishness?

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Wedekind toys with ideas of fate and prophecy. How much power do people have in determining their fates? Is a self-fulfilling prophecy the same as fate?

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Examine Wedekind’s use of satire. How does he use it to support or to undermine his messages?

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