Summary Of The Play 'Spring Awakening'

The play “Spring Awakening” is directed by Shelly Elman and is originally based on Frank Wedekinds play. The a few characters struggling to transition to adulthood. The personal strife of the characters differs through desire, confusion, frustration and many other effects. Nonetheless, the characters all end up with the drastic questions: Who am I? And what does it all mean?
When I first heard about the play in class I had no idea what I was actually going to be looking at. The day of the play, I walk in and notice art in the main lobby. One piece that stuck out in particular was the one with the two skeletons entwining. The painting to me made me envision the couple growing old and dying together. Even seeing the color of the leaves and flowers …show more content…
I think the audience knows at this point when the doctors start to call out her symptoms that Wendla is definitely pregnant. To me I would think this is a crisis! “Why is a fifteen year old having a child?” is the first thing I thought of. She goes to send him a letter but he escapes because of his troubles of being expelled at school for writing the essay to Moritz. He ends up receiving the letter and upon meeting up he discovers her gravestone. The Masked man explains Wendla died from a botched abortion that her mother set up. Abortions at this time were illegal and very dangerous and most woman passed away with infection. Melchior is in total shock that he lost two of the most important people to him. Melchior plans to take his own life and kill himself to make his pain go away until the spirits of Moritz and Wendla appear and stop him. He is taken by their presence and insist he will not forget them and live on. Melchoir to me would be best defined as a dynamic character. He begins to understand adulthood and painful complications that life …show more content…
The goal was to reveal the real truths about society in which the character’s may usually feel alone as well as a harsh reality. The music reveals the character’s thoughts and challenges while most importantly the songs develop a more nightmarish and at times dream like atmosphere. In this play sex and violence are linked. Some of the main themes portrayed in this play would be sexuality and Religion. Sexuality being the most controversial Wedekind aimed to exemplify adolescence at its finest. Wedekind does not use many adults throughout the play because adults can easily see their flaws and mistakes rather than children. I would describe the whole play as raw and climatic and the issues in the play still haunt us