#like the whole point of the thing is that wendla doesn't believe she got pregnant bc she doesn't love melchior | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

ncityzen · 5 years ago

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so instead of writing the essays i need to hand in before the end of the month i spent the entire morning watching the deaf west version of spring awakening and it’s SO BEAUTIFUL like omg sign language really adds a whole new level of emotion to the whole thing and it’s amazingly done

#i think i saw the original production years ago on youtube and couldn't really remember how it went #i loooooove the musical but the main 'problems' i have in comparison to the original play are with the ending #and especially with melchior and wendla's relationship #melchior r*pes her in the play like it's very obvious and he specifically states that 'i love you as little as you do me'#like the whole point of the thing is that wendla doesn't believe she got pregnant bc she doesn't love melchior #and her mum told her one needed to love the other person to get pregnant #melchior is a very 'grey' character as in he's idealistic and strives for change but he also commits horrible acts as a result of it all #and well the ending is super different like in the musical it seems as if he also dies??? when in the play the main point of it all #is that he sees moritz's ghost who at first tries to convince him how great the afterlife is bc nothing matters anymore #but in the end lets him go recognising that it's actually really lonely and that melchior should live + the masked character helps #it's a sort of hopeful ending even with all the tragedy #ALSO the scene with ernst and hänschen in the musical is often portrayed as comical while when i was reading the play #it didn't strike to me as comical at all??? like it's super tender and there are sure comical elements to their characters #but something tells me they just wanted to make the token 'haha look they're gay' scene....the actors in the deaf production were great tho #THIS IS SO LONG LMAO AND ONLY MARTI KNOWS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT SORRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY #erola.txt

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