[EsmeraldaDaae]

I just bought the script book...very good. But there were some things that puzzled me...sorry if these questions are not in story order... I am writting them as they came to me...

1. Is Ilse's story a modern example of how an abused girl runs from an abusive family environment and finds herself in another abusive world? I mean, her line before Morritz's suicide was really bugging me...I don't get it...has she given up on life and thinks she'll 'be lying dead in a trash heap' like modern abused runaways?

2. Does Wedekind mention Wendla's 'crimson tide'? She really must have issues if she doesn't believe in the stork anymore and nobody wants to tell her the truth about reproduction.

3. Does anybody know where I can find a copy of the original play in German and/ or English? I know some German, so reading for me will be more like guesswork.

[freakycallbackgirl]

I can only answer the last one.

On Amazon.com or at a bookstore like Borders or Barnes and Nobles. They have the musical script and the play script.

[mastachen]

1. I don't think she said she'll be dead. Probably just means she's homeless. But I thought that scene didn't make much sense because she kept trying to convince Moritz to walk her home, and thus obviously she was heading to her childhood home because they were going to dig up their old toys, and in Act I, we were told that she ran away from home. Maybe she's going back?

2. Alabama's mascot is the crimson tide. LOL Anyways, I don't recall any mention of that in the musical. I haven't read the play though.

3. freakycallbackgirl already addressed that one.

[EsmeraldaDaae]

uh...I mean Wendla's period...does Wedekind mention it?

[mastachen]

Oh I know what you meant. I was just pointing out that little random useless tidbit about Alabama.

[cameronhiggins]

I got a free copy of the play in pdf from google books...... just get on google and search google books spring awakening and it should turn up

[Vertigo50]

My take on the "trash heap" line is this:

It's a turnaround for that scene. You're sitting there silently pleading with her to help Moritz in that whole scene. You know that when she leaves Moritz is going to kill himself, and you're hoping she'll convince him to go with her. The way she talks about the artist commune is a little humorous, but it seems pretty strange. She also seems strangely insistent that Moritz come with her.

Then when she says the "trash heap" line, you realize that SHE needs help just as much as Moritz does. You realize that while you were worried about Moritz that whole scene, this girl is in some serious trouble herself.

I don't think you're supposed to know exactly what she means by that line, but it clues you into the fact that she's not happy at the commune either. I mean, guys are constantly "painting" her body, which may be a metaphor in and of itself, and she spent a night out in the freezing snow, with no one to come get her and take her inside. That doesn't sound like a very pleasant environment for a 15-16 year old girl.

So for me, as I was worried about Moritz for that whole scene, when she said that line I was like, "Holy crap, she needs him as much as he needs her."

[shadowdancer]

Ok, just wanted to put my 2 cents in on a few things!

But I thought that scene didn't make much sense because she kept trying to convince Moritz to walk her home, and thus obviously she was heading to her childhood home because they were going to dig up their old toys, and in Act I, we were told that she ran away from home. Maybe she's going back?

She was trying to get him to sleep with her, he is a symbol of the good in her past, and if she can "have" him, it will make her feel better. The entire artist combine. She is totally making up where she is staying. I would guess she is homeless and lives with vagabounds and she is trying to paint this crazy-bohemian lifestyle to make herself feel better and of course sound better to moritz.

I do agree with vertigo about the "trash" line. The whole scene Moritz is thinking she is living this free spirit lifestyle and things turned out fine for her (and she went thru so much shit). When she says the trash line, he realizes it was a lie and sees her really for the first time. I think this is the final straw that pushes him over the edge. I realized right away she was painting a facade about her life, as when the girls mention her earlier then mention about "what happened and has happened to her.