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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of Buchner's "Woyzeck". It is a justification for "Woyzeck" being the final text in a European literature syllabus. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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which exemplify the primary value that Romanticists placed upon passion and emotions, to the comparatively dissolute confusion of value and anti-value in Thomas Manns "Death in Venice", the driving forces
of passion and intellect have proven to be fertile ground for European authors exploring the human condition. Notably, as time passes, the confusion between which of the two polar extremes
is the more valuable intensifies, until at last that confusion itself begins to destroy the humanity that invoked it, as in the works of Kafka and Mann. This corresponds to
the current state of humanity: cognitively and psychically displaced, most individuals live lives compartmentalized and categorized by the social institutions that they serve. Torn between personal passions and desires and
the repressive fact of institutions and the machinery of state, mans life, even in the 21st century, is a maddening and often violent affair. For this reason, Buchners "Woyzeck" is
an ideal text with which to end the course. Formally speaking, it is an unfinished play, which means that it lacks a finalizing statement upon the tensions between humanity and
its institutions that the course has been exploring through the lens of Romanticism and Realism. This is fitting as that issue has of course been left unresolved to this day,
and might indeed have no final solution. Narratively speaking, "Woyzeck"s manifest content also exemplifies this struggle. The titular character is a soldier, a social position that might have been cast
in an air of Romance in earlier European literature, but which is now characterized by poverty and ill repute (Buchner, 1996). Woyzeck lives in a hovel and struggles to support
his girlfriend and "illegitimate" child by being the personal servant of his Captain (Buchner, 1996). This reinforces the reality that not only is Woyzecks societal role controlled by the social
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